He didn't say, "Fire all police, get rid of the FBI, CIA, and NSA, disband the army, navy, marines, and airforce."
The former is quite sensible. Iraq and Afghanistan can't be won the way, say, WW2 was. There's no one in charge to surrender and no standing army to be told to lay down arms. Rather than bitching about people supposedly wanting the US to lose, they could see reality for what it is and cut their loses before they waste more lives and more money for absolutely nothing.
Funny but it seems that a good portion of those stupid people are either in charge of creating laws or enforcing them.
Ok, yeah, that still doesn't quite get it.
Laws like that are more often the result of naivete and incompetence/ignorance than stupidity or malice.
I don't think it's naivete or incompetence but definitely ignorance, greed, or maliciousness.
Consider this: It's naive to think DRM won't negatively affect legitimate purchasers and will stop piracy but it's incompetent to outlaw breaking DRM and malicious to shut down internet connections based on mere accusations of piracy.
And, I will say outright that malicious (or at least sociopathic greed) is at play in Arizona where private prison companies helped draft Senate Bill 1070. Link
Oh, and there's red light cameras, too. Those in charge of enforcing the law shortened the yellow lights which resulted in an increase of rear end accidents and they did just to make a buck.
The law feels (or at least appears) to be written in black&white terms but it's a colorful world. There should be room for discretion and leniency as well as shame and punishment. You might say that that's already a problem as people on the bottom of the financial totem pole get hammered by the law while people on top have their lawyers apologize and they go about their merry ways and I would agree with you. And, frankly, I don't really have a solution short of bringing back 1950's tax rates since those with wealth and power use that wealth and power to influence elections and lawmakers to gain ever more.
Cause it is not just their job to enforce them, but a LEGAL OBLIGATION as well.
Talk about trying hard to keep people from doing any thinking on their own. They can just keep that in mind every time they need to decide how moral it is to bust a college kid for smoking pot and getting his federal aid revoked.
He's the face of an open challenge to the rulers of the land. They won't take kindly to that in Russia. Also, they won't beat around the bush and do character assassination. They'll just assassinate.
I don't know but it's practically becoming The Internet. That fucking logo is everywhere and businesses are falling all over themselves screaming, "FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER!"
Pisses me off to no end.
Worse still is websites doing the same thing.
Hello! I'm on your fucking website! I don't need to go to another one to read what I want that's already right fucking here in front of me!
It still would be shut down. That and they would flat out lie if such documents revealed trumped up evidence (WMDs?), coverups (Pat Tillman, Jessica Lynch), outright lawbreaking (Ilario Pantano shooting two detained Iraqis, Abu Ghraib torture), and suspicious circumstances (billions of dollars in cash sent to Iraq and can't be accounted for).
I admit an updating block list would be very convenient but I like the game of finding what offending server is dishing me ads. Plus if it's a site I like and the ads aren't completely jarring to the eye and distracting me constantly, I'm more likely to leave them be rather than disabling all blocking to see what the site is like au naturel.
Opera does come with a way to block content. It's not quite as good as Adblock's design but you can still block stuff using asterisks (eg, *.doubleclick.* *adframe.php?* etc.). It's close enough that the deal breaker for me is mouse gestures since I've never found any extensions for FF that had the same responsiveness as Opera's.
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Yeah, but like, if they had fatter pipes, people could just download the internet and then that bandwidth would be freed up for others.
But it didn't raise our stock this quarter! Fire that man and cancel everything he did!
He said, "...[quit] the damn wars."
He didn't say, "Fire all police, get rid of the FBI, CIA, and NSA, disband the army, navy, marines, and airforce."
The former is quite sensible. Iraq and Afghanistan can't be won the way, say, WW2 was. There's no one in charge to surrender and no standing army to be told to lay down arms. Rather than bitching about people supposedly wanting the US to lose, they could see reality for what it is and cut their loses before they waste more lives and more money for absolutely nothing.
Who the fuck made the shaky cam 'cool'? Was it that douchebag who made Lost and Shakycampolooza- I mean, Cloverfield?
I don't know what's worse: That Stargate Universe is written like a soap opera or that the whole fucking thing is filmed in shaky cam.
Ok, ok. Let me amend my statement.
Funny but it seems that a good portion of those stupid people are either in charge of creating laws or enforcing them.
Ok, yeah, that still doesn't quite get it.
I don't think it's naivete or incompetence but definitely ignorance, greed, or maliciousness.
Consider this: It's naive to think DRM won't negatively affect legitimate purchasers and will stop piracy but it's incompetent to outlaw breaking DRM and malicious to shut down internet connections based on mere accusations of piracy.
And, I will say outright that malicious (or at least sociopathic greed) is at play in Arizona where private prison companies helped draft Senate Bill 1070. Link
Oh, and there's red light cameras, too. Those in charge of enforcing the law shortened the yellow lights which resulted in an increase of rear end accidents and they did just to make a buck.
The law feels (or at least appears) to be written in black&white terms but it's a colorful world. There should be room for discretion and leniency as well as shame and punishment. You might say that that's already a problem as people on the bottom of the financial totem pole get hammered by the law while people on top have their lawyers apologize and they go about their merry ways and I would agree with you. And, frankly, I don't really have a solution short of bringing back 1950's tax rates since those with wealth and power use that wealth and power to influence elections and lawmakers to gain ever more.
Talk about trying hard to keep people from doing any thinking on their own. They can just keep that in mind every time they need to decide how moral it is to bust a college kid for smoking pot and getting his federal aid revoked.
Nah, just their puppets.
Funny but it seems that a good portion of those stupid people are either writing laws or enforcing them.
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Why? Is there something I don't know? Something that might make me panic?! Oh god! WHAT IS IT?!
There's no room for thinking in the free trade world otherwise workers and consumers might demand safe and effective jobs and products.
Your comment has been flagged for the phrase "over taking comercial aircraft"!
He's the face of an open challenge to the rulers of the land. They won't take kindly to that in Russia. Also, they won't beat around the bush and do character assassination. They'll just assassinate.
I don't know but it's practically becoming The Internet. That fucking logo is everywhere and businesses are falling all over themselves screaming, "FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER!"
Pisses me off to no end.
Worse still is websites doing the same thing.
Hello! I'm on your fucking website! I don't need to go to another one to read what I want that's already right fucking here in front of me!
Waitaminute....
But what about the second reply to the second reply to the second comment?
We stopped nuking Nevada and now it has the highest unemployment in the country. Coincidence?
Have to buy old movies revamped into 3D, a new TV & player, probably new receiver, too, since there'd be a new DRM system....
Just sign into you Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail Facebook Beacon account and you're all set!
Friends are deemed public knowledge on FB and can't be hidden IIRC.
War actions WILL get innocent people killed.
Yay! We're pulling our troops out! ...err, right?
It still would be shut down. That and they would flat out lie if such documents revealed trumped up evidence (WMDs?), coverups (Pat Tillman, Jessica Lynch), outright lawbreaking (Ilario Pantano shooting two detained Iraqis, Abu Ghraib torture), and suspicious circumstances (billions of dollars in cash sent to Iraq and can't be accounted for).
Meanwhile, we still have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan....
I'm guessing you haven't been to the airport since late 2001 or so.
I admit an updating block list would be very convenient but I like the game of finding what offending server is dishing me ads. Plus if it's a site I like and the ads aren't completely jarring to the eye and distracting me constantly, I'm more likely to leave them be rather than disabling all blocking to see what the site is like au naturel.
Opera does come with a way to block content. It's not quite as good as Adblock's design but you can still block stuff using asterisks (eg, *.doubleclick.* *adframe.php?* etc.). It's close enough that the deal breaker for me is mouse gestures since I've never found any extensions for FF that had the same responsiveness as Opera's.