The inherent danger here is that Creationism became Intelligent Design. The Creationist book had a word for word replacement done. And now many of the "Guided Evolution" folks have been conned into supporting "Intelligent Design" against science due to the wonderful new marketing of a really stupid idea.
I often point "Guided Evolution" folks to Ken Miller's speach on the matter. Incredibly intelligent, does a wonderful job of tearing apart the ID nonsense and giving some incredible detail on the whole Dover shenanagins and the history of ID. He is also Roman Catholic and challenges the notion that evolution has anything to do with denying God. Look him up on youtube. Hour long presentation, but incredibly done.
I am missing your point here. Are you saying it is ok to assume that all Catholics are kiddy diddlers or are you making the argument that not all Catholics are kiddy diddlers despite the media attention(which would also entail accepting that not all BSA members are bigots despite the media attention). Personally it looks like you are saying something completely tangent to any of this in an effort to call me stupid over your choice in faith because I mentioned "Catholics" specifically.
This is why I cringe when members of these groups get on their soap boxes. As much as I argue with right wingers about "no, they aren't trying to force you to accept what they do, they just want to not get treated like shit over it" anytime an athiest starts going off about how stupid religion is or when homosexuals act out in their freakshow demonstrations and parades it kinda takes the wind out of the sails in defending them. It is hard to defend people's rights when they insist on being equally fanatical about fighting anyone who disagrees with them. The sad part is at least the right wingers don't make any claim to being open and accepting to everyone.
*disclaimer* Almost all of the homosexuals I have known are resonable and sane individuals and are not flambouyant little attention whores, but that's who gets the camera time.
Yet,I have only met a precious few athiests that didn't attack religion with the same illogic, hate, and vitrol that the most zealous fundamentalists use in their own attacks.
Because they are not a government organization. Geeze that was easy. Use of public land does not mean you have to abide by government regulations regarding discrimination. The idea that you can kick groups off of public property for discrimination is pretty much as far against that whole right to assemble and free speech stuff as you can get.
Again, this has absolutely 0 to do with what I said about most of them aren't flaming assholes and it's just the flaming assholes that get the attention. And that being a flaming asshole back to them based on this is counterproductive and ignorant. But hey, we all know that all Catholics are child molestors because a few shithead priests like to touch little boys and have some asshat leaders that helped them get away with it. That only works when you ignore the thousands upon thousands of non shithead Catholics. Just like this bigotry crap only works when you ignore the thousands of non bigoted BSA associates.
How dare you help kids enter the world of open source! I demand that you be an irrational bigot like the rest of the groupthink crowd here! You are clearly lying about your association since if you were athiest they would have kicked you out!
The double standard here bothers me. "Oh no...our favorite groups are allowed to have assholes that we judge individually, THOSE groups get judged as if they were all copies of the assholes that are brought to our attention".
Thank you! I was about to post something similar with almost every post being "they hate gays and atheists, no I won't help them". Well congratulations, all you assholes just joined their club anyways. Way to fight fire with fire there guys.
On top of that it isn't like there is some grand inquisitor that hunts down the gays or athiests throughout the organization. Most of that nonsense may be the stated position, but it is hardly universally enforced.
When I was a scout ages ago there was never once a discussion regarding homosexuality in any fashion. There were also a number of non church goers that were treated no different. The organization has damned badges for religious study in a wide variety of religions. In fact, what I do distinctly remeber was a great deal of stuff about diveristy and teamwork regardless of background. If you have personally had issues with shitty leadership, then by all means make your specific complaints, but it isn't the whole organization. If you have not been involved and only read the few stories that pop up every now and then...shut the hell up because you are just being an ignorant bigot. If you haven't already noticed bullshit and bad news makes ratings, the good never does.
The minute you latch onto crap like "they all behave like this" you justify "well all the gays do this" or "all the athiests cause that". God forbid you evaluate people on an individual basis. Regardless of group it just takes one shitty leader to fuck something up and wind up in the news, all the good leaders are never heard from.
I have tried to come up with a decent answer witty or not but I just can't. I have long been of the belief that the spread of the Roman empire is ultimately what screwed civilization up in the long term (At least western).
Seriously though, you grossly mischaracterize "a bunch of clever individuals". There are equally worthless rich and powerful folks who stand to gain if global warming is true. That is why this is such a damned mess.
Pro-warmers have picked some of the most horrible people to present their case. I watched that god aweful "inconvenient truth" mess. He starts with "this is not political" and then spends at LEAST half of the damned moving making stupid partisan jokes and other politically charged claims.
In the end it boils down to there are a lot of scientists presenting possible models and investigating. Then there are even more political wackaloons cherrypicking or manipulating these models and evidence to prove/disprove their view in order to press the solutions that will benefit them the most. For all the bitching about various things it came out that our increased cow raising has produced an alarming rise in those wonderful cow gasses...don't hear anyone bitching about cows now do you? Nope just the SUVs and fossil fuel stuff, which is directly tied to oil profits, carbon credits, alternate energies (to include growing more corn and such for ethanol) and so on.
I think we are having an effect, but it is hard to say with any certainty how much of an effect. Way too many variables coupled with a bucket full of sketchy motives. Personally I think we should err on the side of caution though. The whole "we aren't having an affect" crowd scares me because regardless of the specific scientific impact, the notion that the planet's first (most likely) industrialized civilization is not impacting the environment in a large variety of ways is unbelievably stupid.
The saddest part of this is the pathetic claims of Darwin renouncing his theory on his death bed crap. The end of his book on the subject of evolution concludes that all of what he wrote shows the incredible power and diversity of God's creation.
It's just a jump to the left...
And a damned bad editor...
I mean really...I am disappointed with the hacking community now big time. Master time travel and all you can come up with is hold a conference complaining about things? Paradox be damned its worth it to try and fix the unmitigated disasters in freedom that have been going on the last 20 years or so.
Right...because the headline stories over the last few months of chinese government sponsored attacks against a multitude of governments is all imaginary right?
That is what I thought at first but the math doesn't add up right at all. Then I remembered Disneyland != Disneyworld. Disneyland is the CA one and Disneyworld is the FL one.
Besides the horrible logical fallicies I don't have a problem with your post...
"that military and not computer scientists are running it" Since when the hell did military mean not smart...or is this another one of those braindead ultraliberal repeated lies. The military as a whole has never been more educated and has been responsible for some pretty impressive things in the past. Do you understand how utterly moronic it is to say "Well those stupid DARPA guys aren't computer scientists and can't possibly do this". Uhm...they did it once already...remember that real internet thing?
"by its nature malware can not specifically target people in particular organizations". Ok...you are obviously not clear as to how the internet came to be or exists today. By all means...go poke around with RIPE and ARIN and tell me if you can't target particular organizations. For fucks sake there are lists all over the net that show specific US military installations IP ranges. No...you couldn't possibly restrict the scanning if you were armed with lists like that now could you? Specific companies, countries, etc...all listed right there in nice neat orderly glory. You know once upon a time they believed you couldn't believe drop bombs from planes and hit specific targets...that changed as they got to practice and now rather than relying on sight and timing of a pilot there is a computer that rides the bomb all the way down and can pinpoint targets within a few feet. That is kind of the point of building a simulator like this...to practice kind of stuff. Malware is nothing more than combining the word malicious and software. There is nothing in that word that means "only used by russian spammers and script kiddies".
Well, given their history. IE was an aquisition too. They took the exciting technology developed by a small company and put it in the hands of millions of users. Now look what we have on the internet because of that. I am willing to take the gamble of missing out on cool things if we can avoid any more of Microsoft putting crap like that into the hands of millions. Now if you will excuse me I have some office macro viruses to write, some vbs scripts to email about, and some activex exploits to post.
You have some false logic in your security description. When you talk about how it would be easier to steal data from the office server rather than from Google you are grossly misunderstanding the threat. What are the odds that someone is going to even target that private practice? How much do you think they would even get if they do get in? I would even go so far as to say that the average individual worthy of specific targeting typically gets healthcare from slightly larger and more advanced organizations. Now on the other hand, you have one of these online providers that will host more individual records by many orders of magnitude. So the payoff for a success is already considerably higher. Couple that with being targeted by a number of threats many orders of magnitude greater than that small provider.
Now on top of that...I think these services are monumentally stupid because of some of the very reasons you mention. That many people with all their medical data all in one place. That is a datamining heaven. Corporations will want that "Sorry, you have too much of a medical history, we don't want to hire you because you will cost us too much". Insurance companies will want that "Oh, you have a family history of 4 major expense problems...your premium will be tripled for this and will be subject to early termination." Of course there is the tremendous amount of political value "Prolifer Sally is on her 3rd abortion." Then the really really really fun one everyones favorite reoccuring government program! Eugenics! What better way to track down all of the undesirables that you would like to exterminate. To hell with getting IBM to help you with a census like the Nazi's, we have DNA testing these days!
All of this with no real protection to stop any of these companies from selling out to the highest bidder. Or has it has been lately with the Bush Administration and the telcos search engines...just rolling over for whatever nonsense the government asks for in its quest for the "War on (Drugs|Terror|Poverty|Other)".
You should also know that the world is flat and only 6000 years old and that Jesus rode a dinosaur. I don't know if they teach that since they are typically assumed truths. If you are lucky you may even get to go to the creationist museum in Kentucky. They have children playing with dinosaurs and some even have saddles n such!
Fun fact. Jesus being caucasian actually proves God is caucasian because Joseph was not the real father!
Are you kidding? What Jack Thomson did was genious! Seriously, what better way to get the entire world looking right at you. Now keep in mind a disturbing number of the populace is increasingly kook. Anti-evolution, anti-science, etc, etc. I mean really, look at half the crap coming from the right wing media. Very little of it is more than "We are so pious and those liberal god hating socialist democrats will destroy us all!". Not that I think it will succeed, but he certainly has the potential for being a flashpoint for the growing number of conservative loonies to lurch forward. 8 years of above the law executive privlidges just gave them a taste of blood.
I don't like the dems much myself, but I have yet to see anything from the right leaning media that is much more substantial than "ooooh they are evil boogeymen socialists!". And people follow that crap right along, so... Stands to reason there are enough people that this fool could gain some traction. King George was elected twice afterall. Never underestimate the power of fundie loonies when they get motivated to a cause.
Though, I don't think much of this is terribly likely (I hope), and otherwise ol JT is a genius comedic actor on the stage of life! Hardly a moron, he gave the gift of laughter to people everywhere with that stunt.
I am guessing you didn't actually read the linked article. It is little more than a smear the nigger article offering anything substantial beyond lots and lots stupid name calling. Outside of the blatantly racist stuff I rather like his description of how there is nothing personal on a passport application other than the social security number, and how everything else is public information (which much of it is not). Then he goes on to whine about how it became non issue after the other candidates news broke. Which is a whole load of bullshit because it got BIGGER when it turned out it was a widespread issue. That article is little more than racist trite. If it was an even remotely objective article with a shred of credibility then you are right, pointing out the flaws of a black man is hardly racist. However, it is pretty far from that and passing out that kind of bullshit as evidence to support your claim. That is like saying "Well, I'm not racist, but you sure are right, that boy does act like a nigger".
I am certainly not ingoring that genuine racists put up a lot of effort to confuse and distort the issues. Passing out material from a racist prick like this writer is an act of confusing and distorting the issue. And anyone who reads that nonsense and gives it a shred of credibility is indeed falling for it.
By all means...explain how an article calling the first black presidential candidate "the Magic Negro" or accusing him of infidelity based on "the Negro libido and psyche" is anything but blatantly racist.
Sure, because there will be nothing to invade. That has got to be one of the most blind and ignorant things I have heard and I do hope you weren't serious. Look, I think the saber rattling is bullshit, I think this administration has gone WAY past its limits in terms of executive power. But I have no doubt in my mind that Iran's leadership is even more psychotic than our own (which says a frightening amount).
Bush has already begged and pleaded for small nukes he can use at will without triggering WWIII. Do you seriously want some crazy fuck bastards to get the bomb, toss one at Israel. Israel will likely retaliate (or what is left) and then we toss some at Iran because our trigger happy administration is begging to use nukes. Then I imagine China and Russia would get involved since they have pretty large interests in Iran and then oh yeah..no more war because everyone is a nice pile of radioactive dust.
So we can't assume someone is a racist if they pass out racist material? I'm sure those folks handing out the KKK flyers aren't racist either, they just really believe the KKK has a solid point. That is bullshit. This isn't some anti-racism crusade, this is someone posting a link to a drivel spewing bigot as evidence of Obama corruption. The credibility of the claims goes to fucking absolute zero once you start reading "Magic Negro" and the lines about the Negro labido and psyche. People who propogate racist shit like that are racists themselves or unbelievably and undeniably stupid, which is nearly the same thing.
By all means...provide evidence of political corruption, but when it is just another right wingnut blathering on with racist nonsenes and hate of them socialist Democrats it just highlights your own stupidity. Nevermind that the current Republican party is more like the Soviets they try to equate the Dems to.
To be fair that white guilt crap that says I am supposed to feel bad for racism and slavery that I had absolute nothing to do with is total bullshit too.
From the wiki: Gambling has a specific economic definition, referring to wagering money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods.
Everything involves calculated risks though. When you are investing you are researching, moving money, and so on. When you throw money at the market and hope for the best you are gambling.
I called the friend with the camera to get the model and it is not one of the ones listed here. I found some other information that points to it doing mpeg2 stuff making it a pain in the ass. Thanks for the heads up though, will keep an eye out for these ones too.
My incompetence did not choose a camera that recorded in some bullshit fashion. In fact, as I mentioned, the one time I realized I did purchase a camera with screwball features I took the thing back before we even got home with it. When I make purchases I avoid crap like this. This was not my camera. These were videos shot for me on someone elses camera that I am unable to play based on the manufacturers codec choice. I would bitch about any maker that did that, not just Sony. And as I have mentioned now repeatedly it wasn't just the camera. It was the fact that they have a long track record of being shitheads and this was just one more reason they irritated me most recently.
End of day I'm still not buying more software just to play these videos so it has nothing to do with my incompetence. I also don't install a bunch of garbage just to get this one thing done. I will reencode on another machine and be done with it. The problem isn't that I can't play the videos at all, the problem is Sony's choices made me jump through burning hoops to be able to do something simple like play the damned video. Burning hoops that I have never had to deal with on any other camera I have ever encountered. Oh and I apologize for my incompetence of not memorizing the model of the camera that was used in filming the videos when they were given to me. I suppose I should have renamed all of the files to reflect that so that when they didn't play like every other damned video I have ever pulled of of digital cameras I would know exactly where to go to download the manual and read it. As I said previously, this wasn't my camera, I had to call the guy to find the model number, and I certainly didn't have the manual to look at during any point of this.
I was under the unfortunate impression that you might actually have some worthwhile information regarding this rather than a bunch of insulting nonsense. I was sadly mistaken.
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The inherent danger here is that Creationism became Intelligent Design. The Creationist book had a word for word replacement done. And now many of the "Guided Evolution" folks have been conned into supporting "Intelligent Design" against science due to the wonderful new marketing of a really stupid idea.
I often point "Guided Evolution" folks to Ken Miller's speach on the matter. Incredibly intelligent, does a wonderful job of tearing apart the ID nonsense and giving some incredible detail on the whole Dover shenanagins and the history of ID. He is also Roman Catholic and challenges the notion that evolution has anything to do with denying God. Look him up on youtube. Hour long presentation, but incredibly done.
Tell that to China!
I am missing your point here. Are you saying it is ok to assume that all Catholics are kiddy diddlers or are you making the argument that not all Catholics are kiddy diddlers despite the media attention(which would also entail accepting that not all BSA members are bigots despite the media attention). Personally it looks like you are saying something completely tangent to any of this in an effort to call me stupid over your choice in faith because I mentioned "Catholics" specifically.
This is why I cringe when members of these groups get on their soap boxes. As much as I argue with right wingers about "no, they aren't trying to force you to accept what they do, they just want to not get treated like shit over it" anytime an athiest starts going off about how stupid religion is or when homosexuals act out in their freakshow demonstrations and parades it kinda takes the wind out of the sails in defending them. It is hard to defend people's rights when they insist on being equally fanatical about fighting anyone who disagrees with them. The sad part is at least the right wingers don't make any claim to being open and accepting to everyone.
*disclaimer* Almost all of the homosexuals I have known are resonable and sane individuals and are not flambouyant little attention whores, but that's who gets the camera time. Yet,I have only met a precious few athiests that didn't attack religion with the same illogic, hate, and vitrol that the most zealous fundamentalists use in their own attacks.
Because they are not a government organization. Geeze that was easy. Use of public land does not mean you have to abide by government regulations regarding discrimination. The idea that you can kick groups off of public property for discrimination is pretty much as far against that whole right to assemble and free speech stuff as you can get.
Again, this has absolutely 0 to do with what I said about most of them aren't flaming assholes and it's just the flaming assholes that get the attention. And that being a flaming asshole back to them based on this is counterproductive and ignorant. But hey, we all know that all Catholics are child molestors because a few shithead priests like to touch little boys and have some asshat leaders that helped them get away with it. That only works when you ignore the thousands upon thousands of non shithead Catholics. Just like this bigotry crap only works when you ignore the thousands of non bigoted BSA associates.
How dare you help kids enter the world of open source! I demand that you be an irrational bigot like the rest of the groupthink crowd here! You are clearly lying about your association since if you were athiest they would have kicked you out!
The double standard here bothers me. "Oh no...our favorite groups are allowed to have assholes that we judge individually, THOSE groups get judged as if they were all copies of the assholes that are brought to our attention".
Thank you! I was about to post something similar with almost every post being "they hate gays and atheists, no I won't help them". Well congratulations, all you assholes just joined their club anyways. Way to fight fire with fire there guys.
On top of that it isn't like there is some grand inquisitor that hunts down the gays or athiests throughout the organization. Most of that nonsense may be the stated position, but it is hardly universally enforced.
When I was a scout ages ago there was never once a discussion regarding homosexuality in any fashion. There were also a number of non church goers that were treated no different. The organization has damned badges for religious study in a wide variety of religions. In fact, what I do distinctly remeber was a great deal of stuff about diveristy and teamwork regardless of background. If you have personally had issues with shitty leadership, then by all means make your specific complaints, but it isn't the whole organization. If you have not been involved and only read the few stories that pop up every now and then...shut the hell up because you are just being an ignorant bigot. If you haven't already noticed bullshit and bad news makes ratings, the good never does.
The minute you latch onto crap like "they all behave like this" you justify "well all the gays do this" or "all the athiests cause that". God forbid you evaluate people on an individual basis. Regardless of group it just takes one shitty leader to fuck something up and wind up in the news, all the good leaders are never heard from.
I have tried to come up with a decent answer witty or not but I just can't. I have long been of the belief that the spread of the Roman empire is ultimately what screwed civilization up in the long term (At least western).
Carbon Credits. Nuff said.
Seriously though, you grossly mischaracterize "a bunch of clever individuals". There are equally worthless rich and powerful folks who stand to gain if global warming is true. That is why this is such a damned mess.
Pro-warmers have picked some of the most horrible people to present their case. I watched that god aweful "inconvenient truth" mess. He starts with "this is not political" and then spends at LEAST half of the damned moving making stupid partisan jokes and other politically charged claims.
In the end it boils down to there are a lot of scientists presenting possible models and investigating. Then there are even more political wackaloons cherrypicking or manipulating these models and evidence to prove/disprove their view in order to press the solutions that will benefit them the most. For all the bitching about various things it came out that our increased cow raising has produced an alarming rise in those wonderful cow gasses...don't hear anyone bitching about cows now do you? Nope just the SUVs and fossil fuel stuff, which is directly tied to oil profits, carbon credits, alternate energies (to include growing more corn and such for ethanol) and so on.
I think we are having an effect, but it is hard to say with any certainty how much of an effect. Way too many variables coupled with a bucket full of sketchy motives. Personally I think we should err on the side of caution though. The whole "we aren't having an affect" crowd scares me because regardless of the specific scientific impact, the notion that the planet's first (most likely) industrialized civilization is not impacting the environment in a large variety of ways is unbelievably stupid.
The saddest part of this is the pathetic claims of Darwin renouncing his theory on his death bed crap. The end of his book on the subject of evolution concludes that all of what he wrote shows the incredible power and diversity of God's creation.
It's just a jump to the left...
And a damned bad editor...
I mean really...I am disappointed with the hacking community now big time. Master time travel and all you can come up with is hold a conference complaining about things? Paradox be damned its worth it to try and fix the unmitigated disasters in freedom that have been going on the last 20 years or so.
Right...because the headline stories over the last few months of chinese government sponsored attacks against a multitude of governments is all imaginary right?
That is what I thought at first but the math doesn't add up right at all. Then I remembered Disneyland != Disneyworld. Disneyland is the CA one and Disneyworld is the FL one.
Besides the horrible logical fallicies I don't have a problem with your post...
"that military and not computer scientists are running it" Since when the hell did military mean not smart...or is this another one of those braindead ultraliberal repeated lies. The military as a whole has never been more educated and has been responsible for some pretty impressive things in the past. Do you understand how utterly moronic it is to say "Well those stupid DARPA guys aren't computer scientists and can't possibly do this". Uhm...they did it once already...remember that real internet thing?
"by its nature malware can not specifically target people in particular organizations". Ok...you are obviously not clear as to how the internet came to be or exists today. By all means...go poke around with RIPE and ARIN and tell me if you can't target particular organizations. For fucks sake there are lists all over the net that show specific US military installations IP ranges. No...you couldn't possibly restrict the scanning if you were armed with lists like that now could you? Specific companies, countries, etc...all listed right there in nice neat orderly glory. You know once upon a time they believed you couldn't believe drop bombs from planes and hit specific targets...that changed as they got to practice and now rather than relying on sight and timing of a pilot there is a computer that rides the bomb all the way down and can pinpoint targets within a few feet. That is kind of the point of building a simulator like this...to practice kind of stuff. Malware is nothing more than combining the word malicious and software. There is nothing in that word that means "only used by russian spammers and script kiddies".
Well, given their history. IE was an aquisition too. They took the exciting technology developed by a small company and put it in the hands of millions of users. Now look what we have on the internet because of that. I am willing to take the gamble of missing out on cool things if we can avoid any more of Microsoft putting crap like that into the hands of millions. Now if you will excuse me I have some office macro viruses to write, some vbs scripts to email about, and some activex exploits to post.
You have some false logic in your security description. When you talk about how it would be easier to steal data from the office server rather than from Google you are grossly misunderstanding the threat. What are the odds that someone is going to even target that private practice? How much do you think they would even get if they do get in? I would even go so far as to say that the average individual worthy of specific targeting typically gets healthcare from slightly larger and more advanced organizations. Now on the other hand, you have one of these online providers that will host more individual records by many orders of magnitude. So the payoff for a success is already considerably higher. Couple that with being targeted by a number of threats many orders of magnitude greater than that small provider.
Now on top of that...I think these services are monumentally stupid because of some of the very reasons you mention. That many people with all their medical data all in one place. That is a datamining heaven. Corporations will want that "Sorry, you have too much of a medical history, we don't want to hire you because you will cost us too much". Insurance companies will want that "Oh, you have a family history of 4 major expense problems...your premium will be tripled for this and will be subject to early termination." Of course there is the tremendous amount of political value "Prolifer Sally is on her 3rd abortion." Then the really really really fun one everyones favorite reoccuring government program! Eugenics! What better way to track down all of the undesirables that you would like to exterminate. To hell with getting IBM to help you with a census like the Nazi's, we have DNA testing these days!
All of this with no real protection to stop any of these companies from selling out to the highest bidder. Or has it has been lately with the Bush Administration and the telcos search engines...just rolling over for whatever nonsense the government asks for in its quest for the "War on (Drugs|Terror|Poverty|Other)".
You should also know that the world is flat and only 6000 years old and that Jesus rode a dinosaur. I don't know if they teach that since they are typically assumed truths. If you are lucky you may even get to go to the creationist museum in Kentucky. They have children playing with dinosaurs and some even have saddles n such!
Fun fact. Jesus being caucasian actually proves God is caucasian because Joseph was not the real father!
Are you kidding? What Jack Thomson did was genious! Seriously, what better way to get the entire world looking right at you. Now keep in mind a disturbing number of the populace is increasingly kook. Anti-evolution, anti-science, etc, etc. I mean really, look at half the crap coming from the right wing media. Very little of it is more than "We are so pious and those liberal god hating socialist democrats will destroy us all!". Not that I think it will succeed, but he certainly has the potential for being a flashpoint for the growing number of conservative loonies to lurch forward. 8 years of above the law executive privlidges just gave them a taste of blood.
I don't like the dems much myself, but I have yet to see anything from the right leaning media that is much more substantial than "ooooh they are evil boogeymen socialists!". And people follow that crap right along, so... Stands to reason there are enough people that this fool could gain some traction. King George was elected twice afterall. Never underestimate the power of fundie loonies when they get motivated to a cause.
Though, I don't think much of this is terribly likely (I hope), and otherwise ol JT is a genius comedic actor on the stage of life! Hardly a moron, he gave the gift of laughter to people everywhere with that stunt.
I am guessing you didn't actually read the linked article. It is little more than a smear the nigger article offering anything substantial beyond lots and lots stupid name calling. Outside of the blatantly racist stuff I rather like his description of how there is nothing personal on a passport application other than the social security number, and how everything else is public information (which much of it is not). Then he goes on to whine about how it became non issue after the other candidates news broke. Which is a whole load of bullshit because it got BIGGER when it turned out it was a widespread issue. That article is little more than racist trite. If it was an even remotely objective article with a shred of credibility then you are right, pointing out the flaws of a black man is hardly racist. However, it is pretty far from that and passing out that kind of bullshit as evidence to support your claim. That is like saying "Well, I'm not racist, but you sure are right, that boy does act like a nigger".
I am certainly not ingoring that genuine racists put up a lot of effort to confuse and distort the issues. Passing out material from a racist prick like this writer is an act of confusing and distorting the issue. And anyone who reads that nonsense and gives it a shred of credibility is indeed falling for it.
By all means...explain how an article calling the first black presidential candidate "the Magic Negro" or accusing him of infidelity based on "the Negro libido and psyche" is anything but blatantly racist.
Sure, because there will be nothing to invade. That has got to be one of the most blind and ignorant things I have heard and I do hope you weren't serious. Look, I think the saber rattling is bullshit, I think this administration has gone WAY past its limits in terms of executive power. But I have no doubt in my mind that Iran's leadership is even more psychotic than our own (which says a frightening amount).
Bush has already begged and pleaded for small nukes he can use at will without triggering WWIII. Do you seriously want some crazy fuck bastards to get the bomb, toss one at Israel. Israel will likely retaliate (or what is left) and then we toss some at Iran because our trigger happy administration is begging to use nukes. Then I imagine China and Russia would get involved since they have pretty large interests in Iran and then oh yeah..no more war because everyone is a nice pile of radioactive dust.
So we can't assume someone is a racist if they pass out racist material? I'm sure those folks handing out the KKK flyers aren't racist either, they just really believe the KKK has a solid point. That is bullshit. This isn't some anti-racism crusade, this is someone posting a link to a drivel spewing bigot as evidence of Obama corruption. The credibility of the claims goes to fucking absolute zero once you start reading "Magic Negro" and the lines about the Negro labido and psyche. People who propogate racist shit like that are racists themselves or unbelievably and undeniably stupid, which is nearly the same thing.
By all means...provide evidence of political corruption, but when it is just another right wingnut blathering on with racist nonsenes and hate of them socialist Democrats it just highlights your own stupidity. Nevermind that the current Republican party is more like the Soviets they try to equate the Dems to.
To be fair that white guilt crap that says I am supposed to feel bad for racism and slavery that I had absolute nothing to do with is total bullshit too.
From the wiki: Gambling has a specific economic definition, referring to wagering money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods.
Everything involves calculated risks though. When you are investing you are researching, moving money, and so on. When you throw money at the market and hope for the best you are gambling.
Not exactly...many investors are gambling rather than investing.
I called the friend with the camera to get the model and it is not one of the ones listed here. I found some other information that points to it doing mpeg2 stuff making it a pain in the ass. Thanks for the heads up though, will keep an eye out for these ones too.
My incompetence did not choose a camera that recorded in some bullshit fashion. In fact, as I mentioned, the one time I realized I did purchase a camera with screwball features I took the thing back before we even got home with it. When I make purchases I avoid crap like this. This was not my camera. These were videos shot for me on someone elses camera that I am unable to play based on the manufacturers codec choice. I would bitch about any maker that did that, not just Sony. And as I have mentioned now repeatedly it wasn't just the camera. It was the fact that they have a long track record of being shitheads and this was just one more reason they irritated me most recently.
End of day I'm still not buying more software just to play these videos so it has nothing to do with my incompetence. I also don't install a bunch of garbage just to get this one thing done. I will reencode on another machine and be done with it. The problem isn't that I can't play the videos at all, the problem is Sony's choices made me jump through burning hoops to be able to do something simple like play the damned video. Burning hoops that I have never had to deal with on any other camera I have ever encountered. Oh and I apologize for my incompetence of not memorizing the model of the camera that was used in filming the videos when they were given to me. I suppose I should have renamed all of the files to reflect that so that when they didn't play like every other damned video I have ever pulled of of digital cameras I would know exactly where to go to download the manual and read it. As I said previously, this wasn't my camera, I had to call the guy to find the model number, and I certainly didn't have the manual to look at during any point of this.
I was under the unfortunate impression that you might actually have some worthwhile information regarding this rather than a bunch of insulting nonsense. I was sadly mistaken.