A very similar test to simulate what this high powered sonar would sound like to someone under water, for Bush and the crypt keepers on the supreme court. Stick their heads inside a 55 gallon drum and blast Metalica in the other end @ 400 db.
Very well put and agreed. The problems created by bush & co can be corrected but will take some time, one thing @ a time
Our divisions over color are not just black and white but also red and blue. All these divisions need to be overcome and put behind us if we are to correct the errors of the past and move on to healing the nation.
The U.S. cannot be a world leader if our own house is in disarray.
Now I'm feeling much better that I have struck a cord with the partisan republican trolls out there. Yesterday my parent post was up to +5 insightful. The only way to lower it to +3 Insightful by today is to let personal views instead of fact sway the trolls to mod me down.
To all of you Nazi republican trolls out there: FUCK YOU and the sleazy whore that bore you.
Try as you may to destroy America with your stupidity, There will be others like me that will stop you, with our guns if necessary.
Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and many others saw the need to overstep certain boundaries to set foundational principals for the new colonies.
And some republicans have had the balls to come out and denounce publicly that they do not approve of what their kind are doing. I have no animosity towards them. These are the real patriots. Others that are just fine being led around by their noses and told what to do and think, are just mindless sheep.
But I do have issues with those that fervently defend Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, James Baker, Rumsfled, Robert Novak, Rove, Rice, Jeb, Wolfowitz, and the rest of the neocon scum. These public figures should be the ones facing war crimes and crimes against humanity. They have disgraced us all. Their followers are the ones that would be better off just shot out of a cannon and into space.
I couldn't have said it better. Except I am neither liberal nor conservative. I am an American patriot and believe in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I also believe in capitalism and separation of church and state.
But, I will never again vote for any republican since they began their campaign to destroy the foundations of American democracy and switch the country to capitalistic dictatorship and the military industrial complex.
I have NO fear of Obama. And contrary to the neocon rhetoric, I have no doubt he will uphold the principals of democracy, unlike the last 2 douch bags he and Biden will be replacing shortly. I am also a gun owner and support the right for all Americans to form Militia to defend our land and freedoms.
Actually it's the neocon side of the isle that will seek to take our guns from us. Dictatorship is easier when the masses cannot shoot back.
Bush & Cheney have done more damage to the country and world than should have been allowed. I hold all republicans and their supporters guilty of high treason for this. Now they have 2 more whacked out fruit cakes, John McBush & Sarah McCheney they want in there to continue the destruction.
Isn't it obvious that McBush & McCheney, as people, are just as stupid as George W. Bush? Cheney is not stupid, he is just pure evil.
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." George W. Bush
I've read through your links You're getting yourself all worked up over nothing. The top 5% starts @ ~$153K. There are a lot of people in this income bracket. The top 1% starts @ ~$388K and paid ~39.9% of all taxes paid. There are a lot of doctors, lawyers, small business owners, programmers, etc. paying their fair share of taxes. Rest assured, they are all quite happy and content living their life styles.
Myself personally, I am close to being in this top 5%, and I am just a lowly union sheet metal worker. I don't feel as though I am being ass raped by taxes. I DO enjoy having paved roads to drive on and decent infrastructure around me, which is why we pay taxes in the first place.
All things are relative. If nobody pays taxes, you lose those nice paved roads, the fire station and hospital just down the street from you house. Along with many other things you rely on for your every day needs.
Obama did refuse to put his hand ofer his heart and he did refuse to wear flag lapels when everyone else was doing it
I really don't know why everybody is making such an issue over this shit.
Putting your hand over your heart during the PoA isn't a requirement in any manual I've seen. Most of us have just been programmed to do this from when we were young, but if you think about it, it's just a superficial gesture. Some do it, & some don't. Get over it!
As for the lapel pin, that is a republican thing. They thought it up. It also means absolutely nothing. It is almost sacrilege the way they make such an issue over it too. Considering how badly they have fucked the country up over the past 12 years. I don't wear a lapel pin. I'm sure you don't either. Can we let it all go now and just keep moving forward?
mod parent up to (Score:10, Insightful) Although I must add that in addition to war profiteering going on, corporate oil is also benefiting from all the economic plundering.
Interesting how everytime I post to this forum, the same points you have made here, I get modded down as Troll or Flamebait. WTF?? Has the entire community @ slashdot just been suddenly purged from the Matrix and can now see the real world?
Or are the republican fanboys just staying clear of this discussion as it is enemy territory for them.
Taxation is a good starting subject so I will throw some input here as well.
"I'm against Obama's plan to give tax rebates to people that do not pay federal income taxes.
I have seen Obama's tax plan and your quote as above is a right wing spin on his plan. For brevity, He actually intends to slightly lower taxable percentages on incomes up to $250K. Whereas incomes above $250K will pay a slightly higher percentage than they enjoy now. The very bottom income brackets will NOT receive any free give-aways under Obama's tax plan as the right wing spinmeisters hope to imply. This is not a big deal so let it go. I see this as an improvement over the trickle down mentality of the right wing crowd as their economic plan has never worked and never will. To take from the poor and give to the rich is a retarded tax plan and for any free soceity and working class person to accept is insane.
Social Security: I have skimmed the link you provided above. Nothing here has been set in stone and seems to serve as a starting point for discussion. At least he wants to do something to reform the system that will keep it there for future generations. It will no doubt be a debated subject for some time before any changes are made. I for one see this as positive improvement compared to Bush's old plan, that went over like a turd in a punch bowl, of privatizing SS. Note what happened to the unregulated banking system recently? That could have been SS as well under a right wing privatized type plan. I for one have been paying into SS for 30 years now and would appreciate getting my money back out some day instead of seeing some CEO bankrupting a privatized system after skimming the till into their pocket. I'm sure you and many others would like to see it repaired so you can get your money back out as well, when you retire. You may need it it some day, who knows.
Tobacco is another successful product. Completely useless but has been profitable to some. They gave the things away for free, produced marketing to show how cool you'll be as a user, and bingo, customers for life.
Considering that BG bought the original dos, QDDOS, from an unsuspecting hacker, and he paid meat puppets to code all the garbage he marketed, I'll bet he didn't start a new company for innovation purposes. He is nothing more than a successful scam artist.
Probably brain storming now how to buy Linux and then destroy it.
We should be suspicious. M$ will never give up the battle so easily. If they cannot destroy FOSS through FUD marketing, maybe the new tactic is infiltrate and then destroy from within. Just like a cancer.
Rumors of M$ trying to infiltrate ODF. Now Samba. Why on earth would they want to infiltrate ODF? Why don't they just invent their own open document format and fuck that up first? Oh, wait.... Be afraid, be very afraid.
Fighting terrorism was just a bull shit story to sway public opinion towards an Afghan invasion. The real reason that George "head up his ass" Bush invaded Afghanistan was so that the oil companies could build a gas pipeline through the country. The current regime there Hamid Karzai is a puppet for the oil industry and has been on their payroll. A search on Wikipedia also suggests this notion but is a somewhat controversial subject. Although anyone with any brains can see it's true. Even the people of Afghanistan want to kill him as a traitor.
I wouldn't be surprised if the truth came out that the Bush crime family has been trafficking Afghan heroin into the USA aboard CIA run C130 transports like they did during the Reagan/Bush Nicaraguan/Contra secret war, only that time it was cocaine.
I shit thee not! The Bush family are some of the most greedy and corrupt cock-suckers on the planet.
Your link is a good example. If some inaccurate idea is repeated enough times, it becomes fact. Some examples: MPAA, RIAA, GWB, RNC, WMD, etc, etc, etc....
They need to try again @ the San Antonio airport. I went through there last November. Shit! Even Jack Armstrong "the all American boy" would be subject to a body cavity search in the most intense "Security Theater" on the continent.
I swore on my mother's grave, I will never ever ever go to that shit hole again!
Speak for your self, I thought the pulled-a-Palin jab was plain hilarious.
Apparently that one was over most other's heads. I got it too.
Another drop in replacement for Palin could have been Fred Thompson. He also has the unique gift of assembling a sentence of completely random works. "We are here for fryingpan lymptopizzle starsearch dwiz pan fried. And so my gizzle friends pfffft bleagh."
Your logic is to accept that there are no standards and M$ rules the day. I say BullShit! It takes the same amount of time to code a web page incorrectly as it does to do it right. It's that simple.
The problem here is that most web site developers are hacks that don't know their asses from a hole in the ground. This is the problem.
Maybe next time they send a probe to Mars, they will put a directional wind vane and an anemometer on board. A dangling wire just doesn't do it. Only shows a wind is present.
Audio there would most likely sound the same as wind here, so nothing new.
You know I'm sick of these prejudices (yes that is the correct word). I'm a Republican, I read lots of texts, and my room is about as messy & colorful as any liberal room.
Furthermore, I'm sick of the label "conservative". The idea that man should rule himself (not be ruled by politicians) is about as liberal as can be. I support legalization of marijuana (inside your own home) and same-sex marriages (it's your bedroom; do whatever you want). I'm as liberal as any Democrat, I just don't think having my government act like my daddy is the answer.
We can work this out peaceably. But you must also STOP using the label "liberal". Liberal is a label concocted by the RNC meaning something derogatory. They use it to offend, something like "faggot". I was once a voting Republican, but came to my senses and got over it (you can thank Reagan/Bush for that). Now I am undeclared. This is better bc I am not tied to any affiliation. I can vote for the best option as I choose.
I typically lean left on most issues now as I see it to better our soceity, community and ourselves as human beings. If you want something, you must also give something.
Republicans anymore just seem to want, want, want, tale, take, take. They want tax cuts. They want to start wars all over the planet. They want to have better roads, hospitals, etc, etc... You can borrow like there is no tomorrow from the rest of the world for this, but eventually we have to pay back the loans. Then you go on the offensive against the Dems because they try to pay back the loans (so our grandchildren don't have to), but are not yet able to pull the money from their asses, so taxes have to be resumed to a sensible level to get the cash flow to pay off the debt the Rep's ran up.
Your kind label Dems as "Tax and Spend". If goofy labels are legal, then Republicans should be known as: "It's the great American give away. Come one come all of the wealthiest 1%. It's rape and pillage time! We only have just a couple years to divy up the continent, so don't loose out. Everything must go."
Also drop the "socialism" crap. Our soceity is somewhat socialist to a degree. We pay taxes and wages into government controlled funds, and in return our elders get retirement payments from yours and my pockets, and you get roads to drive on from my taxes paid. This is socialism, period. Your republican leader, dubya, subsidizes the oil industry with free monetary infusions, lets put that money to better use and give all Americans better health care. Our world will be better for it in the long run.
So please just stop all your stereotypical "conservative mentality" squealing and whining and just be a good citizen.
The internet protocol is a standard. M$ is not. M$ is just some wacked out monolopy that wants the world to conform to their business model. To code a web site to look good for the IE users excludes millions of visitors that don't use M$ products.
I am a Linux user and run the latest FF version complete with script blocking and all the safe surfing plugins. It really pisses me off to go online to shop, only to find a site renders like shit and is completely unusable. Business lost for them. I go elsewhere.
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A very similar test to simulate what this high powered sonar would sound like to someone under water, for Bush and the crypt keepers on the supreme court.
Stick their heads inside a 55 gallon drum and blast Metalica in the other end @ 400 db.
Another chair murdered while in the prime of it's life ...
Ballmer, the cold blooded chair killer. And the killing spree continues
Very well put and agreed. The problems created by bush & co can be corrected but will take some time, one thing @ a time
Our divisions over color are not just black and white but also red and blue. All these divisions need to be overcome and put behind us if we are to correct the errors of the past and move on to healing the nation.
The U.S. cannot be a world leader if our own house is in disarray.
Now I'm feeling much better that I have struck a cord with the partisan republican trolls out there. Yesterday my parent post was up to +5 insightful. The only way to lower it to +3 Insightful by today is to let personal views instead of fact sway the trolls to mod me down.
To all of you Nazi republican trolls out there: FUCK YOU and the sleazy whore that bore you.
Try as you may to destroy America with your stupidity, There will be others like me that will stop you, with our guns if necessary.
Noted
Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and many others saw the need to overstep certain boundaries to set foundational principals for the new colonies.
And some republicans have had the balls to come out and denounce publicly that they do not approve of what their kind are doing. I have no animosity towards them. These are the real patriots. Others that are just fine being led around by their noses and told what to do and think, are just mindless sheep.
But I do have issues with those that fervently defend Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, James Baker, Rumsfled, Robert Novak, Rove, Rice, Jeb, Wolfowitz, and the rest of the neocon scum. These public figures should be the ones facing war crimes and crimes against humanity. They have disgraced us all. Their followers are the ones that would be better off just shot out of a cannon and into space.
I couldn't have said it better.
Except I am neither liberal nor conservative. I am an American patriot and believe in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I also believe in capitalism and separation of church and state.
But, I will never again vote for any republican since they began their campaign to destroy the foundations of American democracy and switch the country to capitalistic dictatorship and the military industrial complex.
I have NO fear of Obama. And contrary to the neocon rhetoric, I have no doubt he will uphold the principals of democracy, unlike the last 2 douch bags he and Biden will be replacing shortly. I am also a gun owner and support the right for all Americans to form Militia to defend our land and freedoms.
Actually it's the neocon side of the isle that will seek to take our guns from us. Dictatorship is easier when the masses cannot shoot back.
Bush & Cheney have done more damage to the country and world than should have been allowed. I hold all republicans and their supporters guilty of high treason for this. Now they have 2 more whacked out fruit cakes, John McBush & Sarah McCheney they want in there to continue the destruction.
Isn't it obvious that McBush & McCheney, as people, are just as stupid as George W. Bush? Cheney is not stupid, he is just pure evil.
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." George W. Bush
I've read through your links
You're getting yourself all worked up over nothing.
The top 5% starts @ ~$153K. There are a lot of people in this income bracket. The top 1% starts @ ~$388K and paid ~39.9% of all taxes paid. There are a lot of doctors, lawyers, small business owners, programmers, etc. paying their fair share of taxes. Rest assured, they are all quite happy and content living their life styles.
Myself personally, I am close to being in this top 5%, and I am just a lowly union sheet metal worker. I don't feel as though I am being ass raped by taxes. I DO enjoy having paved roads to drive on and decent infrastructure around me, which is why we pay taxes in the first place.
All things are relative. If nobody pays taxes, you lose those nice paved roads, the fire station and hospital just down the street from you house. Along with many other things you rely on for your every day needs.
I really don't know why everybody is making such an issue over this shit.
Putting your hand over your heart during the PoA isn't a requirement in any manual I've seen. Most of us have just been programmed to do this from when we were young, but if you think about it, it's just a superficial gesture. Some do it, & some don't. Get over it!
As for the lapel pin, that is a republican thing. They thought it up. It also means absolutely nothing. It is almost sacrilege the way they make such an issue over it too. Considering how badly they have fucked the country up over the past 12 years.
I don't wear a lapel pin. I'm sure you don't either. Can we let it all go now and just keep moving forward?
There is potential to this game concept. But it needs to be extended to allow the player to win an election and rule as president.
The objective could be to see how quickly you, as president, can destroy civilization.
mod parent up to (Score:10, Insightful)
Although I must add that in addition to war profiteering going on, corporate oil is also benefiting from all the economic plundering.
Interesting how everytime I post to this forum, the same points you have made here, I get modded down as Troll or Flamebait. WTF?? Has the entire community @ slashdot just been suddenly purged from the Matrix and can now see the real world?
Or are the republican fanboys just staying clear of this discussion as it is enemy territory for them.
Taxation is a good starting subject so I will throw some input here as well.
I have seen Obama's tax plan and your quote as above is a right wing spin on his plan. For brevity, He actually intends to slightly lower taxable percentages on incomes up to $250K. Whereas incomes above $250K will pay a slightly higher percentage than they enjoy now. The very bottom income brackets will NOT receive any free give-aways under Obama's tax plan as the right wing spinmeisters hope to imply. This is not a big deal so let it go.
I see this as an improvement over the trickle down mentality of the right wing crowd as their economic plan has never worked and never will. To take from the poor and give to the rich is a retarded tax plan and for any free soceity and working class person to accept is insane.
Social Security: I have skimmed the link you provided above. Nothing here has been set in stone and seems to serve as a starting point for discussion. At least he wants to do something to reform the system that will keep it there for future generations. It will no doubt be a debated subject for some time before any changes are made. I for one see this as positive improvement compared to Bush's old plan, that went over like a turd in a punch bowl, of privatizing SS.
Note what happened to the unregulated banking system recently? That could have been SS as well under a right wing privatized type plan.
I for one have been paying into SS for 30 years now and would appreciate getting my money back out some day instead of seeing some CEO bankrupting a privatized system after skimming the till into their pocket.
I'm sure you and many others would like to see it repaired so you can get your money back out as well, when you retire. You may need it it some day, who knows.
Tobacco is another successful product. Completely useless but has been profitable to some. They gave the things away for free, produced marketing to show how cool you'll be as a user, and bingo, customers for life.
MS Windows & Joe Camel
You can be bitch'n too!
Considering that BG bought the original dos, QDDOS, from an unsuspecting hacker, and he paid meat puppets to code all the garbage he marketed, I'll bet he didn't start a new company for innovation purposes. He is nothing more than a successful scam artist.
Probably brain storming now how to buy Linux and then destroy it.
We should be suspicious. M$ will never give up the battle so easily.
If they cannot destroy FOSS through FUD marketing, maybe the new tactic is infiltrate and then destroy from within. Just like a cancer.
Rumors of M$ trying to infiltrate ODF. Now Samba. Why on earth would they want to infiltrate ODF? Why don't they just invent their own open document format and fuck that up first? Oh, wait ....
Be afraid, be very afraid.
McCain will get the votes of people that look like the Crypt Keeper?
I like it.
Like a monkey, he is running out of feces to throw @ Obama.
I'm waiting for the obligatory "and he fathered an illegitimate black baby too."
Fighting terrorism was just a bull shit story to sway public opinion towards an Afghan invasion. The real reason that George "head up his ass" Bush invaded Afghanistan was so that the oil companies could build a gas pipeline through the country. The current regime there Hamid Karzai is a puppet for the oil industry and has been on their payroll. A search on Wikipedia also suggests this notion but is a somewhat controversial subject. Although anyone with any brains can see it's true. Even the people of Afghanistan want to kill him as a traitor.
I wouldn't be surprised if the truth came out that the Bush crime family has been trafficking Afghan heroin into the USA aboard CIA run C130 transports like they did during the Reagan/Bush Nicaraguan/Contra secret war, only that time it was cocaine.
I shit thee not! The Bush family are some of the most greedy and corrupt cock-suckers on the planet.
Your link is a good example. If some inaccurate idea is repeated enough times, it becomes fact.
Some examples: MPAA, RIAA, GWB, RNC, WMD, etc, etc, etc....
I swore on my mother's grave, I will never ever ever go to that shit hole again!
Apparently that one was over most other's heads. I got it too.
Another drop in replacement for Palin could have been Fred Thompson. He also has the unique gift of assembling a sentence of completely random works. "We are here for fryingpan lymptopizzle starsearch dwiz pan fried. And so my gizzle friends pfffft bleagh."
It takes the same amount of time to code a web page incorrectly as it does to do it right. It's that simple.
The problem here is that most web site developers are hacks that don't know their asses from a hole in the ground. This is the problem.
Audio there would most likely sound the same as wind here, so nothing new.
We can work this out peaceably. But you must also STOP using the label "liberal". Liberal is a label concocted by the RNC meaning something derogatory. They use it to offend, something like "faggot". I was once a voting Republican, but came to my senses and got over it (you can thank Reagan/Bush for that). Now I am undeclared. This is better bc I am not tied to any affiliation. I can vote for the best option as I choose.
I typically lean left on most issues now as I see it to better our soceity, community and ourselves as human beings. If you want something, you must also give something.
Republicans anymore just seem to want, want, want, tale, take, take. They want tax cuts. They want to start wars all over the planet. They want to have better roads, hospitals, etc, etc ... You can borrow like there is no tomorrow from the rest of the world for this, but eventually we have to pay back the loans. Then you go on the offensive against the Dems because they try to pay back the loans (so our grandchildren don't have to), but are not yet able to pull the money from their asses, so taxes have to be resumed to a sensible level to get the cash flow to pay off the debt the Rep's ran up.
Your kind label Dems as "Tax and Spend". If goofy labels are legal, then Republicans should be known as: "It's the great American give away. Come one come all of the wealthiest 1%. It's rape and pillage time! We only have just a couple years to divy up the continent, so don't loose out. Everything must go."
Also drop the "socialism" crap. Our soceity is somewhat socialist to a degree. We pay taxes and wages into government controlled funds, and in return our elders get retirement payments from yours and my pockets, and you get roads to drive on from my taxes paid. This is socialism, period. Your republican leader, dubya, subsidizes the oil industry with free monetary infusions, lets put that money to better use and give all Americans better health care. Our world will be better for it in the long run.
So please just stop all your stereotypical "conservative mentality" squealing and whining and just be a good citizen.
As I recall, it was the mid 60's when the series took to the air waves.
Your logic is lame
The internet protocol is a standard. M$ is not. M$ is just some wacked out monolopy that wants the world to conform to their business model. To code a web site to look good for the IE users excludes millions of visitors that don't use M$ products.
I am a Linux user and run the latest FF version complete with script blocking and all the safe surfing plugins. It really pisses me off to go online to shop, only to find a site renders like shit and is completely unusable. Business lost for them. I go elsewhere.