My state government isn't putting citizens on "kill lists" or making secret "no fly lists".
I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's not necessarily true. Collusion between US federal and state governments against Americans is generally increasing.
Anyone who starts a moral sermon with "Son" is appealing to emotions and not logic in order to hide their own lack of reason. You can dismiss what they say right from the start.
There's so much wrong with this bullshit that I don't even know where to start. So I won't. I'll just let this stand here as a testament to the sanctimonious bullshit that people can spew out.
Uh, no. Strength of character. Asshole. When you're dead, you're gone. No more life, no more things you love. At least with life you have a *chance* at redemption.
Yeah, look at this guy. Another weak-willed loser who didn't have the balls to tough it out.
They actually deem us significant enough to allow us the privilege of having a copy of something we purchased. I feel so... so... special.
For the morons that don't know snark when they see it./SNARK!!!!
Apparently, the mods have spoken: "You shall be grateful, serf! Now... bow, and kiss the feet of thine corporate master. Chew the glorious Bezos mana!"
Rape is not a sex act, it is an act of hatred and violence
You know...I hear this all the time, but I have a hard time buying it..at least in most cases.
Sure if you shove something else in a woman besides a hard dick....I can see that it isn't a sex act for the most part (although some people get off on that).
But if it is a male fucking a female, well, he has to be sexually aroused in order to perform the act, no?
Sure there may be some other thoughts going on there too...fantasy, anger, etc...but it is fundamentally a sexual act and could not be performed with a limp dick if the male in question was not sexually aroused.
And I think we're also seeing more these days...women who were willing at the time...who either right near the end, or even after the act yell "rape"....which isn't fair to the guy, especially after it is done and over with, yet he is still in a world of shit legally.
But if a true rapist doesn't get turned on by women, then I cannot see how he could physically complete the act if not sexually aroused, by definition, making it a sex act/ sex crime.
I understand your point. I'm not qualified to speak authoritatively on the following, but if you'll indulge my speculation as a layperson:
It's possible that (if) rape is a paraphilia, particularly for someone who's clinically (i.e., diagnosed/diagnosable as) sexually sadistic* and afflicted with anti-social personality disorder (or similar). In such a case, I can imagine that if the victim began moaning with pleasure, or otherwise indicating enjoyment**, the attacker may well lose his boner.
* I am not suggesting that sexual "lifestyle sadists" engaging in consensual relationships/activities are in any way comparable to violent criminals. ** This is purely hypothetical, and is certainly not an suggestion as a rape-cessation strategy.
I very much liked your story. With so much negativity surrounding Disney, sometimes it's nice to hear a story about a good experience. I'm looking forward to my first trip there with my kids.
I'm looking forward to Disney giving back to the public domain they've co-opted and profited handsomely from for decades.
Nope. Someone asking you to take a drug test as a condition of a contract is not unreasonable search because there is no force behind their action. You can avoid taking the test by refusing and getting a job elsewhere. Someone in law enforcement doing the same thing is a violation of your rights because you cannot avoid the situation. If you try to leave they will imprison you.
What if every employer required you to submit to full-body x-ray and body cavity search before accepting your application? Would that be reasonable?
If you had to suck off the "'head' of HR" in order to get a job, is that okay as long as the force of government isn't involved?
On a real mission, the trip out is likely to be pretty much demotivational as well. "Here I am, stack of college degrees and qualifications longer than your arm, and what am I doing? Watering hydroponic plants. Oh, god, I'm so depressed."
Well, instead of sending a few smart, expensive people, we see how many TSA "agents" can be stuffed into the spaceship? Maybe some of them will even figure out how to survive.;o)
We could even do it directly by tasking the Army Corps of Engineers to repair infrastructure (at least some of it is strategic in nature and so falls under their purview with just a drop of sophistry).
WASHINGTON—Early Saturday morning, The US Internet Cyber-Talk Attribution Agency (ICTAA), along with ICTAA's First Post Validation and Research Group and Fr1st p0sT Incident Response Team, the DOD's Anomalous Authentication and Anonymity Prevention Task Force, and Slashdot Editter's Local 1252 completed their preliminary investigation—message text analysis, server log examination, system administrator interviews, password strength measurement, poster profiling and pattern matching. According to ICTAA press secretary Dick Goatse, ICTAA expects to issue the joint inquiry's official findings report late this week.
Conditionally speaking as an Anonymous Coward, an official closely involved in the investigation stated that "[the official report] will, in all likelihood, conclude that both of those messages [#42480599 and #42480641] were written by a single author, and that this individual forgot to log in."
As in, Saddam Hussein? Are you saying Barack Obama's named after Saddam Hussein? Because... of course, they must be related! Are you telling me that Saddam Hussein is Barack Obama's father?! Holy shit, man, you need to spread this around; tell the world!
This is the obvious way to make it not matter at all what they lock down for 100s of years. Laurel and Hardy used to be on every Christmas when I was a child. I haven't seen any of their films now for a long long time. Probably they're all sitting in a vault somewhere turning to dust. I guess it is a reminder than in 10^3, 10^4, 10^5, 10^6... years eventually it will all be lost.
I've found myself become the (apparent) sole custodian—i.e., the only persistent, public seeder that I can see—of a number works. When that happens, I feel an obligation to keep my copy available indefinitely. I consider the personal risk in doing so to be less serious than the risk of one of said works becoming permanently unavailable.
The "human rights" activist tribe are just a bunch of pretentious and fickle opportunists. None of them complain about human drones who strap suicide vests onto children.
As far as I know, the US military isn't spending my tax dollars to strap suicide vests onto children.
I keep asking if this is so true then why does every nationality and US state that has stricter gun laws have a lower rate of gun death?
States that claim the privilege of killing their own errant citizens are correlated* with higher murder rates than those that do not. Considering (as I do) that state executions and gun control legislation are both authoritarian policies, I now wonder if it's possible that authoritarianism is objectively bad for society, rather than just something I vehemently oppose.
If anyone has properly sourced data showing the aforementioned gun law/crime relationship, I'd appreciate a citation. If not, I'll post one if/when I get around to it.
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If the Segway was not so damn expensive, more people might use them.
Yup. I wanna look like a fucking jackass, but it costs too much money.
Our road taxes are a pretty good investment.
This video shows otherwise.
So does this one. Well, sorta... but mine's more fun to watch.
My state government isn't putting citizens on "kill lists" or making secret "no fly lists".
I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's not necessarily true. Collusion between US federal and state governments against Americans is generally increasing.
For a few examples of what I'm talking about, please see some of the incidents of abuse listed under criticisms of fusion centers on Wikipedia.
This dude needs therapy and willpower, not electronics.
Who are you, his mother?
How exactly does one fuck a mermaid? I mean, where are the genitals?
I believe there's a multifunction (piss/shit/fuck) hole called a "vent."
Get over yourself.
Yeah, right, "get over yourself."
Somebody said that to me once, and naively, I tried it... Almost broke my neck, and threw out my back.
Anyone who starts a moral sermon with "Son" is appealing to emotions and not logic in order to hide their own lack of reason. You can dismiss what they say right from the start.
There's so much wrong with this bullshit that I don't even know where to start. So I won't. I'll just let this stand here as a testament to the sanctimonious bullshit that people can spew out.
Well, it seems somebody can't handle the truth.
Uh, no. Strength of character. Asshole. When you're dead, you're gone. No more life, no more things you love. At least with life you have a *chance* at redemption.
Yeah, look at this guy. Another weak-willed loser who didn't have the balls to tough it out.
They actually deem us significant enough to allow us the privilege of having a copy of something we purchased. I feel so... so... special.
For the morons that don't know snark when they see it. /SNARK!!!!
Apparently, the mods have spoken: "You shall be grateful, serf! Now... bow, and kiss the feet of thine corporate master. Chew the glorious Bezos mana!"
I care if I lose my life, not by what mechanism.
Seriously? I'd much rather be killed by rifle head-shot or morphine overdose than, say, stuffed into a pizza oven or eaten alive by rats.
You know...I hear this all the time, but I have a hard time buying it..at least in most cases.
Sure if you shove something else in a woman besides a hard dick....I can see that it isn't a sex act for the most part (although some people get off on that).
But if it is a male fucking a female, well, he has to be sexually aroused in order to perform the act, no?
Sure there may be some other thoughts going on there too...fantasy, anger, etc...but it is fundamentally a sexual act and could not be performed with a limp dick if the male in question was not sexually aroused.
And I think we're also seeing more these days...women who were willing at the time...who either right near the end, or even after the act yell "rape"....which isn't fair to the guy, especially after it is done and over with, yet he is still in a world of shit legally.
But if a true rapist doesn't get turned on by women, then I cannot see how he could physically complete the act if not sexually aroused, by definition, making it a sex act/ sex crime.
I understand your point. I'm not qualified to speak authoritatively on the following, but if you'll indulge my speculation as a layperson:
It's possible that (if) rape is a paraphilia, particularly for someone who's clinically (i.e., diagnosed/diagnosable as) sexually sadistic* and afflicted with anti-social personality disorder (or similar). In such a case, I can imagine that if the victim began moaning with pleasure, or otherwise indicating enjoyment**, the attacker may well lose his boner.
* I am not suggesting that sexual "lifestyle sadists" engaging in consensual relationships/activities are in any way comparable to violent criminals.
** This is purely hypothetical, and is certainly not an suggestion as a rape-cessation strategy.
I forget. Is evil Mickey is the one without the goatee?
Evil Mickey is the one with 100+ years of copyright protection.
I very much liked your story. With so much negativity surrounding Disney, sometimes it's nice to hear a story about a good experience. I'm looking forward to my first trip there with my kids.
I'm looking forward to Disney giving back to the public domain they've co-opted and profited handsomely from for decades.
Nope. Someone asking you to take a drug test as a condition of a contract is not unreasonable search because there is no force behind their action. You can avoid taking the test by refusing and getting a job elsewhere. Someone in law enforcement doing the same thing is a violation of your rights because you cannot avoid the situation. If you try to leave they will imprison you.
What if every employer required you to submit to full-body x-ray and body cavity search before accepting your application? Would that be reasonable?
If you had to suck off the "'head' of HR" in order to get a job, is that okay as long as the force of government isn't involved?
On a real mission, the trip out is likely to be pretty much demotivational as well. "Here I am, stack of college degrees and qualifications longer than your arm, and what am I doing? Watering hydroponic plants. Oh, god, I'm so depressed."
Well, instead of sending a few smart, expensive people, we see how many TSA "agents" can be stuffed into the spaceship? Maybe some of them will even figure out how to survive. ;o)
We could even do it directly by tasking the Army Corps of Engineers to repair infrastructure (at least some of it is strategic in nature and so falls under their purview with just a drop of sophistry).
To argue that the US Army Corps of Engineers fix/maintain the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways , no sophistry is needed,
fuck, forgot to log in?
WASHINGTON—Early Saturday morning, The US Internet Cyber-Talk Attribution Agency (ICTAA), along with ICTAA's First Post Validation and Research Group and Fr1st p0sT Incident Response Team, the DOD's Anomalous Authentication and Anonymity Prevention Task Force, and Slashdot Editter's Local 1252 completed their preliminary investigation—message text analysis, server log examination, system administrator interviews, password strength measurement, poster profiling and pattern matching. According to ICTAA press secretary Dick Goatse, ICTAA expects to issue the joint inquiry's official findings report late this week.
Conditionally speaking as an Anonymous Coward, an official closely involved in the investigation stated that "[the official report] will, in all likelihood, conclude that both of those messages [#42480599 and #42480641] were written by a single author, and that this individual forgot to log in."
Davy Crockett (nuclear device)
Barack Hussein Obama
As in, Saddam Hussein? Are you saying Barack Obama's named after Saddam Hussein? Because... of course, they must be related! Are you telling me that Saddam Hussein is Barack Obama's father?! Holy shit, man, you need to spread this around; tell the world!
This is the obvious way to make it not matter at all what they lock down for 100s of years. Laurel and Hardy used to be on every Christmas when I was a child. I haven't seen any of their films now for a long long time. Probably they're all sitting in a vault somewhere turning to dust. I guess it is a reminder than in 10^3, 10^4, 10^5, 10^6 ... years eventually it will all be lost.
Probably, but you can do something: Help keep backups online.
I've found myself become the (apparent) sole custodian—i.e., the only persistent, public seeder that I can see—of a number works. When that happens, I feel an obligation to keep my copy available indefinitely. I consider the personal risk in doing so to be less serious than the risk of one of said works becoming permanently unavailable.
I know almost nothing about the NY Daily News [...]
This New Yorker comic depicts the general tone of New York's big three papers.
The News is left-leaning, and Post is a News Corp/Murdoch property—both are shrill, sensationalist tabloids.
The "human rights" activist tribe are just a bunch of pretentious and fickle opportunists. None of them complain about human drones who strap suicide vests onto children.
As far as I know, the US military isn't spending my tax dollars to strap suicide vests onto children.
Are you ready, hands? Start whacking!
I keep asking if this is so true then why does every nationality and US state that has stricter gun laws have a lower rate of gun death?
States that claim the privilege of killing their own errant citizens are correlated* with higher murder rates than those that do not. Considering (as I do) that state executions and gun control legislation are both authoritarian policies, I now wonder if it's possible that authoritarianism is objectively bad for society, rather than just something I vehemently oppose.
* My own examination was years ago, and I no longer have that spreadsheet, but this brief look is consistent with my prior conclusion.
If anyone has properly sourced data showing the aforementioned gun law/crime relationship, I'd appreciate a citation. If not, I'll post one if/when I get around to it.
Somebody's going to hijack Thomas the Tank Engine and crash him into the Freedom Tower, thus collapsing it... not likely.
Mercifully, the PANYNJ ditched the Newspeak name in favor of One World Trade Center in 2009.