He might be humorously surprised at the assertion that Gingrich "masterminded" a political tactic initially conceived by über-pollster Frank Luntz and the Heritage Foundation.
Or, he might be laughing at the use of the term "mastermind" to describe Newt Gingrich, whose political career displayed a great deal of confusing his own hypocritical moralizing and three-bong-hit ideas about the role of the market with public sentiment.
"DNF" coupled with officer's testimony of "strong odor" is enough for a guilty verdict unless your family coughs up cash for very expensive legal counsel.
According to the article,
An article in the Pioneer Press quoted his attorney, Jeffrey Sheridan, as saying the source code was necessary because otherwise "for all we know, it's a random number generator,"
Yeah, but you know they'll be changing it to something even sillier in a few years. I refuse to play this game and will call the planet by its given name, Sean Combs.
So I take it you've never dealt with the IRS, DMV, EPA, or most other government agencies that people have deal with on a regular basis.
I have dealt with the first two plus the USDA, and while their policies may be completely bonkers, I have never received rude or condescending service, and have been able to receive meaningful follow-through with my concerns. Cingular... er... AT&T, on the other hand, has been pretty consistently awful.
Even ATT is more customer oriented, and it's just about the worst the private sector has to offer.
"Just about?" I can think of five national companies in five seconds who have been considerably more painful to deal with, in my experience: Wachovia, Bank of America, Countrywide Home Lending, Home Depot, and Circuit City.
I'm still shocked that you could fit "AT&T" into the same sentence as "customer oriented."
Well, that's probably because you don't have a lot of experience dealing with underfunded, understaffed, municipal services.
Perhaps this person is not unfortunate enough to live in areas with undersupported municipal services. In my experience, towns that suffer this problem are getting exactly what they ask for (generally not including towns that are just too poor to support anything.) People invite bad local government in two ways (at least): They can try to get it on the cheap, or they can pay a lot of money without having the will or interest to hold politicians accountable.
Everyone grumbles about their local government, but there are definitely instances of good local government. The difference I've observed in areas with good governance is the accompaniment of this grumbling with specific, informed demands of accountability, rather than general invectives against "those bastards" from folks who often can't name any of their city council members.
The electric current generated by the Crowd Farm could then be used for educational purposes, such as lighting up a sign about energy.
I'm not entirely up on my Gibbon, but isn't the arrival of expensive masturbatory thinking regarding resources the prelude to an invasion of Goths? Hell, I'm from Florida, and there's already an army of them down there. The Emperor should look into it.
I know MIT is supposed to be the best and brightest, but this is the dimmest idea I've heard from a prestigious university in at least, oh, a month.
"This new documentation suggests that Yahoo!'s Beijing office was at least aware of the general nature of the crime being investigated in the Shi Tao case," says Joshua Rosenzweig, manager of research and publications for The Dui Hua Foundation, "even if it was unaware of the specific circumstances or the name of the individual involved. One does not have to be an expert in Chinese law to know that 'state secrets' charges have often been used to punish political dissent in China."
Thus sayeth an expert in Chinese law, at any rate.
I have a hard time seeing how these reporters can use this to collect damages, although I wish them the best of luck. My well-reasoned intellectual opinion: fuck Yahoo and the PRC.
Still, it's hard to see how a U.S. court will find that Yahoo had an obligation to analyze every search warrant it receives from the Chinese government for prosecuting disclosure of state secret cases. "Excuse me, Colonel, but how do we know that's really what you're after?"
And yes, fellow nitpickers, I know there's supposed to be an exclamation point after Yahoo. However, as previously stated: fuck Yahoo.
plenty of folks accepted the dominant Republican talking point for the 200 recount
Wow, didn't even catch that typo with two previews.
I would like to point out that, yes, I am aware that emperor Caracalla was unelected, had already served a couple years by 200, and certainly garnered no support from any factions that might refer to themselves as "republican."
What do you do with half-filled circles and stray marks? What if they fill in Bush but write in Gore?
That is the big problem with paper ballots - they can be incorrectly filled out.
Which is why court mandates for recounters to accurately "determine the intent of the voter" are such nonsense. Throw out the incorrectly marked ballots.
So before attending to a problem that demonstrably allows a few well-informed people to completely alter the results of an election, we should come up with a costly and unconstitutional solution to a "voter fraud" problem that isn't a problem at all, at least according to the Bush Justice Department's own politically-motivated five-year study of voter fraud?
What a terrible idea. Good move, posting anonymously and all.
Bubbleheads on cable TV have sold many of us on the idea that democracy is in crisis somehow if they can't announce a winner within hours of election night- which is totally absurd.
Thank you! This need on the news providers' part, to "call" the election before that night's Late Show, has somehow infiltrated our mass culture to the point that plenty of folks accepted the dominant Republican talking point for the 200 recount: "But it'll take tiiiiiime! And mooooney!"
For chrissakes, people, the election is held over two months before the inauguration. We've got time. Perhaps the news providers are just concerned that our country's population of historical amnesiacs will forget there was an election by the time a fair hand count could be completed, but that's hardly a reason to fuck up peoples' expectations of their democracy.
And sometimes, just sometimes, something can be successful BECAUSE it's good.
That's true, but it doesn't hold for the instances highlighted (Lost and Alias, although your mileage may vary), so I don't get the relevance of your comment.
I wish it wasn't cool to be a curmudgeon.
How is it curmudgeonly to point out a truism of art? (See: Art History, Roman Theater through Carrot Top.) Or is the meaning of "curmudgeon" in the 21st century "someone who doesn't share my tastes in pop culture, and must therefore be a sourpuss about said culture in general?"
You can actually win the epic battle against clutter. Because your neighbors aren't sneaking insurgents in to throw more clutter in your face.
Nice, but how about: You can win the battle against clutter because you fight in in your own room, as opposed to that shared by three other individuals who, during the absence of ther abusive father, only pause in their hurling of clutter at one another to hurl more clutter directly at you for shutting off the power, water, and phone line while clumsily and violently attempting to "clean" their room.
I can't imagine how it would be possible to fund anything through tax money and not expect the outcome to be determined by the power elite who control that money.
Simple! All one needs is a dominant national culture that demands political accountability and effectiveness while staying vigilant and involved enough to ensure these outcomes, instead of a culture of lowered expectations that grunts, "them gummint bastards are all thieves anyway, shoot 'em all" while reaching for the next beer and the remote control/mouse/DVD.
Ahem--if embryonic stem cell research is promising all the private pharmaceutical firms (and big-time investors like Warren Buffett and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) would put up lots of money without government help to fund such research.
Doubtful, since they could lose this investment were another pandering President to push through further legislation. (See Human cloning, Clinton presidency.) Of course, since it's unlikely that even this country will elect another Bush, we're likely to see the next Congress bring public policy in line with majority opinion by overturning this particular political prop, so there'd still be no point for serious private investment without first knowing the amount of government funding available.
while embryonic stem cell research has pretty much come up "squadoosh."
Didn't I already answer this objection once? Like I said, this is putting the cart before the horse by expecting a science that has not been seriously funded to compete for publication space with one that has - especially silly when the reason for the funding restriction is not based on efficacy, but on vile political maneuvering.
The traditional argument for this response is to say: "Putting a value on the tissue of the unborn will create a black market for said tissue and encourage commercialization leading to fetus farms where young women are paid for their eggs for use in treating the elderly and the sick"[...]It's a very slippery slope.
Gee, sounds scary, but why anyone might feel compelled to accept a slippery slope argument in the consideration of public policy is beyond me. There is enough demand for IVF treatments to provide a surplus of donor tissue, at any rate.
What is worse--letting someone die who has already experienced life (to some degree) or never giving a conceived, living being a chance at all?
The first, since the second is incapable of having any experiences at all if it is destroyed (either through the normal procedures of IVF or through research) before forming that capability, and cannot be said to have lost anything. Indeed, even giving such a potential being the status of a moral agent is certainly arguable.
I don't have any mod points in this thread, and I wouldn't mod you Flamebait if I did, but if/. had a "-1 Questionable Equivocation" then your post might be a bit lower.
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Like that'll happen. People appear to like having their ugly prejudices parroted by public officials.
Wrong.
Sweet Jesus Christ, do people still believe this bullshit?
I mean, other than the kind of slack-jawed buffoon who anonymously posts unsourced blog entries as points of discussion?
I would agree. He is definitely enough of a casual racist to appeal to The Base.
A true Republican, indeed.
He might be humorously surprised at the assertion that Gingrich "masterminded" a political tactic initially conceived by über-pollster Frank Luntz and the Heritage Foundation.
Or, he might be laughing at the use of the term "mastermind" to describe Newt Gingrich, whose political career displayed a great deal of confusing his own hypocritical moralizing and three-bong-hit ideas about the role of the market with public sentiment.
According to the article,
he's got this guy. Looks expensive.
Yeah, but you know they'll be changing it to something even sillier in a few years. I refuse to play this game and will call the planet by its given name, Sean Combs.
So that's where they're from. I was just blaming Digg and the public schools.
I have dealt with the first two plus the USDA, and while their policies may be completely bonkers, I have never received rude or condescending service, and have been able to receive meaningful follow-through with my concerns. Cingular... er... AT&T, on the other hand, has been pretty consistently awful.
"Just about?" I can think of five national companies in five seconds who have been considerably more painful to deal with, in my experience: Wachovia, Bank of America, Countrywide Home Lending, Home Depot, and Circuit City.
I'm still shocked that you could fit "AT&T" into the same sentence as "customer oriented."
Perhaps this person is not unfortunate enough to live in areas with undersupported municipal services. In my experience, towns that suffer this problem are getting exactly what they ask for (generally not including towns that are just too poor to support anything.) People invite bad local government in two ways (at least): They can try to get it on the cheap, or they can pay a lot of money without having the will or interest to hold politicians accountable.
Everyone grumbles about their local government, but there are definitely instances of good local government. The difference I've observed in areas with good governance is the accompaniment of this grumbling with specific, informed demands of accountability, rather than general invectives against "those bastards" from folks who often can't name any of their city council members.
I'm not entirely up on my Gibbon, but isn't the arrival of expensive masturbatory thinking regarding resources the prelude to an invasion of Goths? Hell, I'm from Florida, and there's already an army of them down there. The Emperor should look into it.
I know MIT is supposed to be the best and brightest, but this is the dimmest idea I've heard from a prestigious university in at least, oh, a month.
Thus sayeth an expert in Chinese law, at any rate.
I have a hard time seeing how these reporters can use this to collect damages, although I wish them the best of luck. My well-reasoned intellectual opinion: fuck Yahoo and the PRC.
Still, it's hard to see how a U.S. court will find that Yahoo had an obligation to analyze every search warrant it receives from the Chinese government for prosecuting disclosure of state secret cases. "Excuse me, Colonel, but how do we know that's really what you're after?"
And yes, fellow nitpickers, I know there's supposed to be an exclamation point after Yahoo. However, as previously stated: fuck Yahoo.
That would imply that each ballot passes through only one set of hands, which would be a terribly silly, accountability-free way to count votes.
Wow, didn't even catch that typo with two previews.
I would like to point out that, yes, I am aware that emperor Caracalla was unelected, had already served a couple years by 200, and certainly garnered no support from any factions that might refer to themselves as "republican."
Which is why court mandates for recounters to accurately "determine the intent of the voter" are such nonsense. Throw out the incorrectly marked ballots.
So before attending to a problem that demonstrably allows a few well-informed people to completely alter the results of an election, we should come up with a costly and unconstitutional solution to a "voter fraud" problem that isn't a problem at all, at least according to the Bush Justice Department's own politically-motivated five-year study of voter fraud?
What a terrible idea. Good move, posting anonymously and all.
Thank you! This need on the news providers' part, to "call" the election before that night's Late Show, has somehow infiltrated our mass culture to the point that plenty of folks accepted the dominant Republican talking point for the 200 recount: "But it'll take tiiiiiime! And mooooney!"
For chrissakes, people, the election is held over two months before the inauguration. We've got time. Perhaps the news providers are just concerned that our country's population of historical amnesiacs will forget there was an election by the time a fair hand count could be completed, but that's hardly a reason to fuck up peoples' expectations of their democracy.
There, fixed that for you. It is Shatner, after all.
Sorry, but "In Living Color" already made that movie.
How is it curmudgeonly to point out a truism of art? (See: Art History, Roman Theater through Carrot Top.) Or is the meaning of "curmudgeon" in the 21st century "someone who doesn't share my tastes in pop culture, and must therefore be a sourpuss about said culture in general?"
Nice, but how about: You can win the battle against clutter because you fight in in your own room, as opposed to that shared by three other individuals who, during the absence of ther abusive father, only pause in their hurling of clutter at one another to hurl more clutter directly at you for shutting off the power, water, and phone line while clumsily and violently attempting to "clean" their room.
Simple! All one needs is a dominant national culture that demands political accountability and effectiveness while staying vigilant and involved enough to ensure these outcomes, instead of a culture of lowered expectations that grunts, "them gummint bastards are all thieves anyway, shoot 'em all" while reaching for the next beer and the remote control/mouse/DVD.
And, while I'm at it, I'd really like a pony.
Doubtful, since they could lose this investment were another pandering President to push through further legislation. (See Human cloning, Clinton presidency.) Of course, since it's unlikely that even this country will elect another Bush, we're likely to see the next Congress bring public policy in line with majority opinion by overturning this particular political prop, so there'd still be no point for serious private investment without first knowing the amount of government funding available.
Didn't I already answer this objection once? Like I said, this is putting the cart before the horse by expecting a science that has not been seriously funded to compete for publication space with one that has - especially silly when the reason for the funding restriction is not based on efficacy, but on vile political maneuvering.
Gee, sounds scary, but why anyone might feel compelled to accept a slippery slope argument in the consideration of public policy is beyond me. There is enough demand for IVF treatments to provide a surplus of donor tissue, at any rate.
The first, since the second is incapable of having any experiences at all if it is destroyed (either through the normal procedures of IVF or through research) before forming that capability, and cannot be said to have lost anything. Indeed, even giving such a potential being the status of a moral agent is certainly arguable.
I don't have any mod points in this thread, and I wouldn't mod you Flamebait if I did, but if /. had a "-1 Questionable Equivocation" then your post might be a bit lower.