We have found that more power remains with the people by choosing democracy over the one-party state
But unfortunately we have become a one party state, as there is precious little difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, both of whom say "how high?" when their corporate campaign donors say "jump".
Corporations don't do as we want, but they do listen when we hit their wallet.
This only works in a national economy, which we no longer have. The corporations are multinational, and have six billion prospective customers. Your purchase is meaningless and there is no way possible to hit them in their wallet. They have no reason to care if you buy or not, there are a lot more suckers where you came from.
For instance, there has been an organized boycott against the RIAA record labels for years. The RIAA doesn't even notice it! Sony rooted millions of computers with trojaned CDs, do they care if I or the other million victims never buy another Sony product again? No, there are six billion other suckers for Sony to sell their rootkit infested computers and TVs and DVD players to.
My purchase, or refusal to purchase, is nothing to them.
They can do all sorts of fun things like seize your car if your friend borrowed it, while you thought he was going to the store to buy a case of beer, and he really used to it to drive to a drug user's house to sell drugs
It's worse than that. You loan him your keys to go on a beer run and he decides to get a bag of pot while he's out. He's not selling, he's buying. He's not a drug dealer, he's a pot smoker. But he gets pulled over on his way back and searched (the courts say the 4th amendment doesn't apply to automobiles), and your car is impounded and sold at auctiion because your friend, who you didn't even know smoked pot, got busted in it with a baggie.
Our politics are simple - the US is a theocracy, and the reigning god is mammon. The golden rule is "he who has the gold, rules". Our temple of worship is called a "bank" and Satan's leash, AKA "the necktie", is to us what the cross is to Christians.
We have the best legislators money can buy.
No rich powerful man ever goes to prison unless a richer, more powerful man wants him there.
The corporations run both major parties and the media, so all US media is in effect state-run.
Our national prayer goes like this:
Our money, who art in the stock market and commodity futures, hallowed be thy name My kingdom come, my will be done on the entire world. Give us this day our daily bread, mansions, jewels, fast cars, yachts, and all the trappings of success. Forgive nobody, as nobody will forgive us. Lead us not into poverty, but deliver us from taxes For money is the power and the glory forever. let's eat.
Wow. Just wow. The gays and athiests, while bashing the BSA for excluding them, mod anyone with a dissenting viewpoint as "troll".
Your mom wants her irony back.
I have never EVER heard the kind of vitriol hurled at reigion (any religion) by slashdot athiests flung at athiests by ANY religion whatever.
Athiests and homosexuals are NOT doing your causes any good with these tactics. You may cow some, but there are those of us who will not be browbeaten.
Now excuse me, slashdot is asking me to metamoderate again.
Attention American mods: that was a British joke, albeit a poor one. In the British Isles, a "fag" is a cigarette. Mr. AC, your joke was in poor taste, as over here in the colonies "fag" is a pejoritive term for "homosexual".
That is, they will do the right thing. I think the real problem here is not that the wording was designed to trick people, but rather that people have gotten so used to being politically correct that they can't see the word "straight" as meaning anything but heterosexual.
I've said before that I wish all the heterosexual men would turn gay so I could have their women, but I've also complained about the hijacking of the terms "gay" and "straight". Thanks to their theift of the word "gay", the Christmas carol "Deck the halls" is now a song about transvestites.
Back in my dad's day "straight" meant "honest". My generation used "straight" to mean "not on drugs". "Honest" still means "honest" but I can't think of a one word word that means "not on drugs". The word "sober" won't fit; sober means "not drunk".
So please, one of you gay guys find a word to replace "straight". And you straight guys, turn gay so I can have your women.
It was censored. It doesn't matter whether it was shut down or not, the point is that your freedom of speech in the US is an illusion.
No law that impinges on speech is constitutional, and no law that impinges the constitution is legal. The US Constitution is the supreme law that all other laws must obey.
But the Constitution is pretty meaningles these says. You have only the "rights" that government deigns to give you.
If I voice an opinion about psychaitry, you should NOT lend me as much credence as someone with a PhD in psychaitry who voices such an opinion.
And the slashdot summary didn't speak of "opinion" and neither did TFA, a book review. One generally doesn't write books as opinion; books are either presented as fiction or nonfiction. Opinions are written in magazines and newspapers.
I have no actual credentials in the field of carpentry, I have never been paid for carpentry work outside my allowance money and I most certainly don't do it for a living (But if I did, would that count as a credential?)
Yes.
but I can write about its basics, and I can read articles and sum them up for you, and I can probably even put together the framing for a house, although I'd have to do some digging to remember what nails I should be using.
And I'd be a fool to read your book unless there were no books on carpentry written by professional carpenters. Your opinion of carpentry is as useless as mine. Neither one of us has the training to make informed statements about carpentry.
And carpentry is a whole lot less complex than neuroscience. Now, if a carpenter writes a book on carpentry he would do well to have someone like Carr edit it for him.
suffice to say most folks can't tell nowadays that I ever had a brain injury.:-\
Man, that just BEGS for a bad joke! But I won't be the one to make that joke, because I had such an encounter in 1976 when I was doing 50 mph in an AMC Gremlin and had a head on collission with a half ton pickup truck that was doing 70. Metal dash and no seat belts; air bags didn't exist then afaik.
50 mph is 80.45 kph, 70 mph is 112.63 kph. Suffice it to say that I've worn seat belts ever since, and that was LONG before they were mandatory.
According to the Uncyclopedia, SUVsare station wagons!
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"In Soviet Russia, the environment f*cks up SUVs!!" ~ Russian Reversal on SUVs
Supersized Urban Vehicle This overgrown station wagon allows hefty drivers of a certain weight to get to work without taking the city bus or a semi. It claims to be the first plus-sized vehicle since the transport truck capable of hauling a 300 pound parent, 3 doubleplus sized ungood children, and 20 bags of groceries without breaking the axles and blowing out the rear tires. Although 2 out of 3 SUV drivers are simply gargantuan, the classier models frequently sport a skinny pinny hauling her brood of 200 pound children to various sport like activities and fast food restaurants. It has also been known to compensate for the gigantic ego of said drivers, and has been known to make the male reproductive organs larger.
SUV is also an acronym for School Transport, Tart Wagon or Chelsea Tractor, in a manner of speaking.
SUV drivers have many natural enemies. The SUV driver's desire to use a mobile phone, smoke, drink coffee all at once and their apparent hatred of all two wheeled vehicles has made them universally hated.
Of course, more insanity ensues at the linked article.
he regularly publishes at the Virginia Academy of Science annual meetings, and has also written a small (90 pg) book that he self published, just to get the ideas out there (ISBN 0976894726 - Thoughts on the Electron Mass).
If he really has published it, as you say, "just to get the ideas out there", then he should post it on the internet and you should give us a link.
90 pages isn't very long. Before I let my domains lapse I paid $15 per year for domain registration and hosting. Hell, he could open a slashdot account and post his book as journals.
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Doctatorship, possibly. But not Facism; in fact, the polar opposite.
In communism, the state controls the corporations.
In facism, the corporations controil the state.
In either method of government the average Joe is fucked over by both government and corporation.
We have found that more power remains with the people by choosing democracy over the one-party state
But unfortunately we have become a one party state, as there is precious little difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, both of whom say "how high?" when their corporate campaign donors say "jump".
Corporations don't do as we want, but they do listen when we hit their wallet.
This only works in a national economy, which we no longer have. The corporations are multinational, and have six billion prospective customers. Your purchase is meaningless and there is no way possible to hit them in their wallet. They have no reason to care if you buy or not, there are a lot more suckers where you came from.
For instance, there has been an organized boycott against the RIAA record labels for years. The RIAA doesn't even notice it! Sony rooted millions of computers with trojaned CDs, do they care if I or the other million victims never buy another Sony product again? No, there are six billion other suckers for Sony to sell their rootkit infested computers and TVs and DVD players to.
My purchase, or refusal to purchase, is nothing to them.
They can do all sorts of fun things like seize your car if your friend borrowed it, while you thought he was going to the store to buy a case of beer, and he really used to it to drive to a drug user's house to sell drugs
It's worse than that. You loan him your keys to go on a beer run and he decides to get a bag of pot while he's out. He's not selling, he's buying. He's not a drug dealer, he's a pot smoker. But he gets pulled over on his way back and searched (the courts say the 4th amendment doesn't apply to automobiles), and your car is impounded and sold at auctiion because your friend, who you didn't even know smoked pot, got busted in it with a baggie.
The Constitution is meaningless.
Our politics are simple - the US is a theocracy, and the reigning god is mammon. The golden rule is "he who has the gold, rules". Our temple of worship is called a "bank" and Satan's leash, AKA "the necktie", is to us what the cross is to Christians.
We have the best legislators money can buy.
No rich powerful man ever goes to prison unless a richer, more powerful man wants him there.
The corporations run both major parties and the media, so all US media is in effect state-run.
Our national prayer goes like this:
Our money, who art in the stock market and commodity futures, hallowed be thy name
My kingdom come, my will be done on the entire world.
Give us this day our daily bread, mansions, jewels, fast cars, yachts, and all the trappings of success.
Forgive nobody, as nobody will forgive us.
Lead us not into poverty, but deliver us from taxes
For money is the power and the glory forever.
let's eat.
*WOOSH*
Yes, you can.
"Why are you asking? You must be looking for child porn! STONE HIM!"
Sure, I'll have a toke. Thanks!
Next up on slashdot: Catholic Priests in America
They made no demands. You do your cause no favors by being disingenuous.
Wow. Just wow. The gays and athiests, while bashing the BSA for excluding them, mod anyone with a dissenting viewpoint as "troll".
Your mom wants her irony back.
I have never EVER heard the kind of vitriol hurled at reigion (any religion) by slashdot athiests flung at athiests by ANY religion whatever.
Athiests and homosexuals are NOT doing your causes any good with these tactics. You may cow some, but there are those of us who will not be browbeaten.
Now excuse me, slashdot is asking me to metamoderate again.
Achievements in "private groups" don't get you brownie points on US military academy admissions.
Yale and Harvard aren't private? Damn, and here I wasted all that time at SIU! If I'd known Harvard was a state-funded school...
Attention American mods: that was a British joke, albeit a poor one. In the British Isles, a "fag" is a cigarette. Mr. AC, your joke was in poor taste, as over here in the colonies "fag" is a pejoritive term for "homosexual".
That is, they will do the right thing. I think the real problem here is not that the wording was designed to trick people, but rather that people have gotten so used to being politically correct that they can't see the word "straight" as meaning anything but heterosexual.
I've said before that I wish all the heterosexual men would turn gay so I could have their women, but I've also complained about the hijacking of the terms "gay" and "straight". Thanks to their theift of the word "gay", the Christmas carol "Deck the halls" is now a song about transvestites.
Back in my dad's day "straight" meant "honest". My generation used "straight" to mean "not on drugs". "Honest" still means "honest" but I can't think of a one word word that means "not on drugs". The word "sober" won't fit; sober means "not drunk".
So please, one of you gay guys find a word to replace "straight". And you straight guys, turn gay so I can have your women.
They can fuck right off.
Sorry, Mr. Blair, but you Brits aren't allowed in the Boy Scouts of America. Next time try not to be so British in your "anonymous" comment.
Hi fellow troll! Oh wait, I'm not and neither are you. Who gave mod points to the six year old?
What happens when an asteroid hits the sun? Does it splash? Or does it vaporize before it hits the sun?
I've read that sunspots are caused by the sun's internal magnetic field, how do we measure it?
It was censored. It doesn't matter whether it was shut down or not, the point is that your freedom of speech in the US is an illusion.
No law that impinges on speech is constitutional, and no law that impinges the constitution is legal. The US Constitution is the supreme law that all other laws must obey.
But the Constitution is pretty meaningles these says. You have only the "rights" that government deigns to give you.
They've been together maybe ten years. I doubt if any of them were on the internet when they chose the name.
You seem to have missed the point entirely.
If I voice an opinion about psychaitry, you should NOT lend me as much credence as someone with a PhD in psychaitry who voices such an opinion.
And the slashdot summary didn't speak of "opinion" and neither did TFA, a book review. One generally doesn't write books as opinion; books are either presented as fiction or nonfiction. Opinions are written in magazines and newspapers.
I have no actual credentials in the field of carpentry, I have never been paid for carpentry work outside my allowance money and I most certainly don't do it for a living (But if I did, would that count as a credential?)
Yes.
but I can write about its basics, and I can read articles and sum them up for you, and I can probably even put together the framing for a house, although I'd have to do some digging to remember what nails I should be using.
And I'd be a fool to read your book unless there were no books on carpentry written by professional carpenters. Your opinion of carpentry is as useless as mine. Neither one of us has the training to make informed statements about carpentry.
And carpentry is a whole lot less complex than neuroscience. Now, if a carpenter writes a book on carpentry he would do well to have someone like Carr edit it for him.
suffice to say most folks can't tell nowadays that I ever had a brain injury. :-\
Man, that just BEGS for a bad joke! But I won't be the one to make that joke, because I had such an encounter in 1976 when I was doing 50 mph in an AMC Gremlin and had a head on collission with a half ton pickup truck that was doing 70. Metal dash and no seat belts; air bags didn't exist then afaik.
50 mph is 80.45 kph, 70 mph is 112.63 kph. Suffice it to say that I've worn seat belts ever since, and that was LONG before they were mandatory.
To quote Monty Python, "My brain hurts too!"
4:20
You guys need to STOP reading my journals!
Polaris is north of the north pole.
They say "time flies when you're having fin" but I never could understand what would be so fun about timing flies.
he regularly publishes at the Virginia Academy of Science annual meetings, and has also written a small (90 pg) book that he self published, just to get the ideas out there (ISBN 0976894726 - Thoughts on the Electron Mass).
If he really has published it, as you say, "just to get the ideas out there", then he should post it on the internet and you should give us a link.
90 pages isn't very long. Before I let my domains lapse I paid $15 per year for domain registration and hosting. Hell, he could open a slashdot account and post his book as journals.