Is that the same Bob Barr who voted for the Patriot Act, voted for the Iraq War, and tried to get Wiccans banned from the Army? Yeah, real defender of freedom there.
Oh, give me a break. You idea of Army interrogation obviously comes from a bad 50's movie. Army interrogators are free to ask whatever question they damn well please of a prisoner. The "name and rank" is only what prisoners are REQUIRED to give during interrogation. This has absolutely no bearing on what the CIA can ask, only of the techniques they can use to get an answer (i.e. no waterboarding the poor bastard if he refuses to answer your questions).
He's only against it when he's making a speech. When the time comes to put his money where his mouth is and actually vote for real anti-torture legislation, he quietly votes against it.
You think I believe that he isn't a hyper-ambitious scumbag too?
No party candidate speaks for me. Basically, I'm in the Jesse Ventura party. That means I have to sit around every election day shaking my head in disbelief.
That was nothing more than bullshit PR. It was just another "I will not condone torture, as I George W. Bush define torture" unenforceable vague statement. When the rubber hits the road, and it comes down to passing an actual law with real teeth in it, John McCain quietly votes against it.
No, he SAYS he's against torture. But when the rubber hits the road, he quietly backs down and votes against any restrictions on it. Remember the ban on waterboarding the Senate passed earlier this year? Well, guess who voted against it?
Back in 2000, I liked and supported John McCain. He was a maverick not afraid to point out the stupidity of cutting taxes while not cutting spending. He was for small government, against nation-building, and pro-human rights. He told the bible-thumping religious right to go fuck themselves and rightly called George W. Bush an incompetent daddy's boy. It infuriated me when Bush and his disgusting cronies destroyed this good man with their scumbag tactics in my own home state (South Carolina).
I don't know who this "John McCain" is today, but he's definitely not that man I supported in 2000. I never thought I would see a John McCain who backed Bush, supported unprovoked preemptive wars, wanted to cut taxes at a time when the country is $9 *TRILLION* in debt, and sucked up to the religious right. But above all else, I NEVER NEVER NEVER thought I would see a man who was a torture victim and POW stand up and support that very torture by HIS OWN COUNTRY.
I was obviously naive to believe in him in 2000, to believe he was anything more than just another hyper-ambitious Washington scumbag who would sacrifice anything to win. I won't ever make that mistake again.
I guess he wants to hear from supporters. But this FORMER supporter wanted to chime in too.
Why would they have designed the thing to have such a low tolerance filter in the first place? Hell, most *terrestrial* soil wouldn't even make it into that oven. I sure wouldn't use it for a soil whose composition was largely a mystery. And, even if they get something, will it truly be representative of the Martian soil, or just the finest particles of it that finally made it through?
If my apps were a bunch of open source stuff that could be put on a thumbdrive, I wouldn't NEED to back them up. It's the programs that take hours to install and require me to find multiple CD's that I really want to backup. Ever tried doing a fresh World of Warcraft reinstall?
Encourage people to make backups of their data on disc, tape, or portable harddrives. I know that's a radical idea, but it just might be crazy enough to work.
If Canada wanted our respect, they wouldn't have bombed our Baldwins. Do you have any idea how many b-rated movies have suffered over the last ten years because of you fucking canucks?
Oh, you're trying to use a proxy service--must be trying to access child porn. So we'll block those too.
Oh, you're accessing adult porn sites. Well, some of them might contain child porn. So we'll block those too.
Accessing a site that's anti-Center for Missing and Exploited Children? Must be trying to get around our system. Well, guess what buddy, we blocked that too.
Oh, Mr. ISP, now you're claiming you can't block sites after you just proved you could? Well, guess who's getting sued for not blocking the Pirate Bay!
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Why? Because I'm just that kind of bastard.
With Google and Yahoo finally working together, just IMAGINE how many Chinese dissidents they'll be able to turn it!
Talk is cheap. Actions always tell the REAL story.
Is that the same Bob Barr who voted for the Patriot Act, voted for the Iraq War, and tried to get Wiccans banned from the Army? Yeah, real defender of freedom there.
So your saying we should be no better than them? I guess you could call that "Fuck all this freedom shit! The U.S. should be a scumbag too!" defense.
Oh, give me a break. You idea of Army interrogation obviously comes from a bad 50's movie. Army interrogators are free to ask whatever question they damn well please of a prisoner. The "name and rank" is only what prisoners are REQUIRED to give during interrogation. This has absolutely no bearing on what the CIA can ask, only of the techniques they can use to get an answer (i.e. no waterboarding the poor bastard if he refuses to answer your questions).
You can't be "against torture" and be okay with it as long as it's the CIA doing it.
He's only against it when he's making a speech. When the time comes to put his money where his mouth is and actually vote for real anti-torture legislation, he quietly votes against it.
No party candidate speaks for me. Basically, I'm in the Jesse Ventura party. That means I have to sit around every election day shaking my head in disbelief.
That was nothing more than bullshit PR. It was just another "I will not condone torture, as I George W. Bush define torture" unenforceable vague statement. When the rubber hits the road, and it comes down to passing an actual law with real teeth in it, John McCain quietly votes against it.
No, he SAYS he's against torture. But when the rubber hits the road, he quietly backs down and votes against any restrictions on it. Remember the ban on waterboarding the Senate passed earlier this year? Well, guess who voted against it?
The edits would be a lot less annoying if they weren't beaming them into my head.
It's a U.S. coin that's worth less and less every day in the rest of the world.
I don't know who this "John McCain" is today, but he's definitely not that man I supported in 2000. I never thought I would see a John McCain who backed Bush, supported unprovoked preemptive wars, wanted to cut taxes at a time when the country is $9 *TRILLION* in debt, and sucked up to the religious right. But above all else, I NEVER NEVER NEVER thought I would see a man who was a torture victim and POW stand up and support that very torture by HIS OWN COUNTRY.
I was obviously naive to believe in him in 2000, to believe he was anything more than just another hyper-ambitious Washington scumbag who would sacrifice anything to win. I won't ever make that mistake again.
I guess he wants to hear from supporters. But this FORMER supporter wanted to chime in too.
Why would they have designed the thing to have such a low tolerance filter in the first place? Hell, most *terrestrial* soil wouldn't even make it into that oven. I sure wouldn't use it for a soil whose composition was largely a mystery. And, even if they get something, will it truly be representative of the Martian soil, or just the finest particles of it that finally made it through?
If my apps were a bunch of open source stuff that could be put on a thumbdrive, I wouldn't NEED to back them up. It's the programs that take hours to install and require me to find multiple CD's that I really want to backup. Ever tried doing a fresh World of Warcraft reinstall?
Encourage people to make backups of their data on disc, tape, or portable harddrives. I know that's a radical idea, but it just might be crazy enough to work.
There's Breakout and...um.....um...Super Breakout.
Just make the hardware guy and software guy Thunderdome for it. If a disagreement can't be solved by Thunderdome, it can't be solved by anything.
If Canada wanted our respect, they wouldn't have bombed our Baldwins. Do you have any idea how many b-rated movies have suffered over the last ten years because of you fucking canucks?
Ah, Jesus. Those movies sucked. Just a lot of walking.
I say we nuke every PC from orbit. Only way to be sure.
Oh, wait.
I say we nuke the entire internet from orbit. Only way to be sure.
Oh, you're accessing adult porn sites. Well, some of them might contain child porn. So we'll block those too.
Accessing a site that's anti-Center for Missing and Exploited Children? Must be trying to get around our system. Well, guess what buddy, we blocked that too.
Oh, Mr. ISP, now you're claiming you can't block sites after you just proved you could? Well, guess who's getting sued for not blocking the Pirate Bay!