If you say something that is logical and makes a valid point I don't really care if it's political or not, I'm not going to reach conclusions solely from information in your post but only an idiot can't be swayed with new information and fresh perspectives. Refusing to be swayed by valid logic and evidence (with due consideration for bias) might well be the definition of an idiot.
I think we're both describing the current situation, at least in regard to political speech. Politics is different (for most people) because we've reached a point where cultural signifiers are much more important than logic and evidence.
If I use logic and evidence to describe a solution in geometry, it doesn't matter if you're a atheist Marxist or an Evangelical Christian. You're going to see the truth. If I say, "Roe vs Wade should be overturned" or "There should be greater regulation of certain types of weapons", then logic and evidence mean a lot less depending on your cultural associations. The logic and evidence are much more likely to be met with, "I reject your evidence because it comes from a source that is not part of my cultural association (ie: Fox News or MSNBC. Breitbart or Alternet). The individual decision has already been made. The only acceptable "logic and evidence" are those that support my existing decision. It's not even confirmation bias any more. It's Hatfields and McCoys. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Today, the most important political issues aren't even on the table. The only ones that generate discussion are the ones that generate the strongest feelings of cultural associations. I believe it is that way by design. And this applies all the way across the political spectrum, in the US. It covers all four candidates.
In other words, 6% - 15% of the people reading have a chance of being swayed.
That is pretty significant. If you can sway 6%-15% of people, it's enough to determine the outcome of an election.
I would bet that the 6%-15% also represents the number of people who can be swayed by political advertising, television spots, op-ed columns or practically any political speech. It's a small percentage, but it's enough.
When they can get the batteries to last properly in Ontario Winter temperatures
There are 13 million people in the entire province of Ontario. Down here, we've got metropolitan areas that have more than that. When they say electric vehicles could meet 90% of driver needs, I'm pretty sure they're figuring you're in the other 10%.
Here in Texas, I've been seeing EVs zipping around all over the place. The average commute in my city is easily within the driving range of EVs, including if you figure in a stop at the dry cleaners and couple of visits to the grocery store, even though this is one of the most spread-out metro areas in the US. And this is the energy corridor, where gas is cheap and big-ass trucks with longhorns mounted on the front are a way of life. If these old boys can adjust, I'm pretty sure 90% of the population can, too.
Do they have an electric vehicle that can carry lumber and sheets of plywood from the hardware store?
If you're going to buy a Ford F-450 for the once every few years you need lumber and sheets of plywood at your house, it would be cheaper just to have it delivered.
Twenty One Pilots is awful music. I mean, really really bad. If you really find the need to listen to white boy rapping, go listen to Action Bronson or (if you must) Post Malone, who actually have a little bit of talent (AB has a lot of talent). Better yet, go listen to Chance the Rapper's new album. I don't even like rap, but I can hear that there's a talented guy working at a high level.
I'll bet that whoever at Atlantic Records released this music ahead of schedule on Reddit did so hoping that it would mess up the release so that the band would go out of business and they wouldn't have to hear their horrible music any more. His next move is to steal the master tapes Mission Impossible-style and incinerate them and bury the ashes like radioactive waste.
But I guess your mileage may vary if you have absolutely no taste.
Look more closely at the article and its links. When Milo retweets these racist items, he's doing so to incite a mob of followers to attack someone. It's been his MO since he glommed onto another hashtag hate group back in 2014.
And that's kind of my point. In theory: you swing the axe, the log splits... if you haven't done that in two decades, you might be shocked at how little wood you can actually split with an axe
Listen to Joe. When I was living up in Connecticut last year, my wife wanted wood from the fireplace and I thought I could still split some logs, no problem. After a few, I decided I'd rather be watching the Patriots pre-game show and made a phone call to order firewood.
By all means, you should get off the grid. The sooner the better. In fact, if you could do it by Wednesday, that would be great. I'm willing to kick in a case of canned peaches to the first 50 people who get the fuck off the grid and stay off.
"Police officials said that a 30-minute security camera video they obtained showed the entrepreneur hitting and kicking his then girlfriend 117 times and attempting to suffocate her inside his $7 million San Francisco penthouse. Chahal's lawyers, however, claimed that police had illegally seized the video, and a judge ruled that the footage was inadmissible despite prosecutors' argument that officers didn't have time to secure a warrant out of fear that the tech executive would erase the footage.
Without the video, most of the charges were dropped, and Chahal, 34, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor battery charges of domestic violence... In Silicon Valley, critics have argued that Chahal's case and the lack of serious consequences he faced highlight the way in which privileged and wealthy businessmen can get away with serious misconduct.. On September 17, 2014, prosecutors say he attacked another woman in his home, leading to another arrest."
Interesting. However the article does not mention if she was acting under official instruction or had gone rogue. If the administration pushed this kind of thing, they should properly take a black eye, but not give up underlings.
She was a CIA spook. We've both seen the movies: "The agency will disavow any knowledge of your actions."
Nobody's accountable anymore, and that's not the worst of it.
But a website doesn't have the same kind of physical presence so the illegal act could theoretically happen anywhere the website is accessed.
The internet is not a magical place where crimes committed across national borders aren't really crimes. If I'm at Niagra Falls, on the Canadian side of the border, and I use a high-powered rifle to kill someone's prized Hereford on the American side of the border, guess what? I committed a crime and I will be extradited. I can't say, "I'm on the Canadian side of the border, so I'm on glue!"
I would think that the nationality of the crime is determined to great extent by the location of the victim.
Presumably this happened because the Silk Road facilitated crimes in the US. But does it even go the other way? Are there ever people extradited from the US because their online activities broke the law in other countries?
I don't know if it has happened specifically with online criminal activity, but Americans do get extradited to other countries.
There was a CIA agent who was involved with some rendition during the Bush Administration who got tried in absentia in Italy, found guilty and then shipped over there. Let me see if I can find it...yes. Here it is:
Now, if the company had only one other employee, the owners paid themselves $500k a year each, plus squandered over $2MM per year on unnecessary expenses, their creditors will very likely see to it that the Wellers spend a lot of time in court and have some fun with the IRS.
The people who are burned are the investors. People who had the poor judgement to think that a no-strings donation on Kickstarter or some other "indie" funding site will actually get them something in return.
It's a classic internet scam. Instead of ripping one person off for a lot of money, you rip off a LOT of people for a LITTLE money. With the new Supreme Court decision weakening class action lawsuits, you can just flip the finger and walk away to start another "indie" company and do the whole thing over again.
Think of the thousands and thousands of games that have been crowdfunded. Now count the number of those games that have actually gotten full, successful releases. It's a relative handful. All the people who donated to all the other projects are just SOL.
but the most prominent and consistent of the bad actors who believe that Man is an ultraviolent monster and needs an all-powerful government in order to have peace.
This might also be an artifact less of the nature of our Constitution and instead the result of the Christian underpinnings of the nation. Remember, a lot of the early arrivals here, right up until the time of the Founding Fathers, believed that man was a fallen creature born in sin and requiring redemption. While that might not be a bad way to build a personal system of morality, it's a horrible way to build a social system. Also, the notion that there is an "elect" (which happens to coincide with "the rich") has caused us to revere wealth to the point that we measure human worth in terms of bank accounts (reputed or otherwise) and belongings. If you're rich and famous, you must be smart and virtuous. This is also an artifact of the religion of the early settlers. It's one reason why we ended up with a Constitution that puts several layers of elite between people and government. The USA was designed from the beginning to be a country government by the elite.
Unfortunately, this has so degraded people's ability to think that it might just be too late to convene a new constitutional convention. At this point, who knows what the hell we'd end up with?
And where might those be? As a fellow Houstonian, I was under the impression that you had to go way out into the countryside to escape light pollution.
Tell you what, it's not going to be real dark skies, but it's better than downtown Chicago (where I'm from). I was in Hermann Park last night, and the viewing wasn't as bad as most cities I've been in.
Say, as a fellow Houstonian, can you give me any tips for decent camping nearby? I've only lived in Houston for 11 days (I got here on the first). It's my first time down here.
The viewing is good here in Texas. I'm in Houston, and not far from downtown, but because of the strange variations in population density here, and the complete lack of zoning laws, you can still find some relatively dark skies where I am.
I'd forgotten all about Perseid until I saw the second one and remembered this is August.
Also since I posted that comment now this thread connects to 172.x.x.x a lot, on port 443 as well which is HTTPS.
Clearly, Slashdot is carrying out political assassinations for the KKKlinton KKKrime Family, and your leak of their WHOIS data proves it. I'd head to the safe room if I were you. Trump 2016.
I know, right? He thinks he's so smart, but he's not smart like you. If he was really smart, why ain't he rich?
Where exactly do you think the 40-hour work week came from? How do you think it's managed to grow into a 60-hour work week, or even 80-hour? What happens to our society when not everyone has to work to create all the goods and services people need? I don't know how old you are, GPS Pilot, but if someone had told me in 1980 that in 2016 people would have to work MORE hours just to survive and have a house and send their kids to school, I'd have laughed at them. And do you think that maybe the reasons behind this have something to do with the exploding income inequality?
Yes, plumbers plumb. Do you know why they make a decent living? Here's a hint: http://www.ua.org/
Do you think it's a coincidence that there's been a concentrated effort by the economic elite to do away with organized labor and collective bargaining? It's an effort that's been going on since at least the day Ronald Reagan was elected president.
Again I point out that if no one worked, no food, clothing, housing, or healthcare would be produced, making for a quite unvirtuous society. You seem to have no rebuttal for this.
Most of your food and clothing come from sweat shops. Is that virtuous? Most of the housing is built by undocumented immigrants. Virtuous? Healthcare is still unionized, thank god, but that's under attack too.
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I think we're both describing the current situation, at least in regard to political speech. Politics is different (for most people) because we've reached a point where cultural signifiers are much more important than logic and evidence.
If I use logic and evidence to describe a solution in geometry, it doesn't matter if you're a atheist Marxist or an Evangelical Christian. You're going to see the truth. If I say, "Roe vs Wade should be overturned" or "There should be greater regulation of certain types of weapons", then logic and evidence mean a lot less depending on your cultural associations. The logic and evidence are much more likely to be met with, "I reject your evidence because it comes from a source that is not part of my cultural association (ie: Fox News or MSNBC. Breitbart or Alternet). The individual decision has already been made. The only acceptable "logic and evidence" are those that support my existing decision. It's not even confirmation bias any more. It's Hatfields and McCoys. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Today, the most important political issues aren't even on the table. The only ones that generate discussion are the ones that generate the strongest feelings of cultural associations. I believe it is that way by design. And this applies all the way across the political spectrum, in the US. It covers all four candidates.
That is pretty significant. If you can sway 6%-15% of people, it's enough to determine the outcome of an election.
I would bet that the 6%-15% also represents the number of people who can be swayed by political advertising, television spots, op-ed columns or practically any political speech. It's a small percentage, but it's enough.
There are 13 million people in the entire province of Ontario. Down here, we've got metropolitan areas that have more than that. When they say electric vehicles could meet 90% of driver needs, I'm pretty sure they're figuring you're in the other 10%.
Here in Texas, I've been seeing EVs zipping around all over the place. The average commute in my city is easily within the driving range of EVs, including if you figure in a stop at the dry cleaners and couple of visits to the grocery store, even though this is one of the most spread-out metro areas in the US. And this is the energy corridor, where gas is cheap and big-ass trucks with longhorns mounted on the front are a way of life. If these old boys can adjust, I'm pretty sure 90% of the population can, too.
If you're going to buy a Ford F-450 for the once every few years you need lumber and sheets of plywood at your house, it would be cheaper just to have it delivered.
Lumber yards do deliver, you know.
People are already using electric cars.
Twenty One Pilots is awful music. I mean, really really bad. If you really find the need to listen to white boy rapping, go listen to Action Bronson or (if you must) Post Malone, who actually have a little bit of talent (AB has a lot of talent). Better yet, go listen to Chance the Rapper's new album. I don't even like rap, but I can hear that there's a talented guy working at a high level.
I'll bet that whoever at Atlantic Records released this music ahead of schedule on Reddit did so hoping that it would mess up the release so that the band would go out of business and they wouldn't have to hear their horrible music any more. His next move is to steal the master tapes Mission Impossible-style and incinerate them and bury the ashes like radioactive waste.
But I guess your mileage may vary if you have absolutely no taste.
Look more closely at the article and its links. When Milo retweets these racist items, he's doing so to incite a mob of followers to attack someone. It's been his MO since he glommed onto another hashtag hate group back in 2014.
http://www.themarysue.com/milo...
The examples of Milo's racism are very easy to find:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
In case you don't realize why depicting a black person as a gorilla is racist, here is a little history:
http://www.authentichistory.co...
Listen to Joe. When I was living up in Connecticut last year, my wife wanted wood from the fireplace and I thought I could still split some logs, no problem. After a few, I decided I'd rather be watching the Patriots pre-game show and made a phone call to order firewood.
Fell asleep in the chair well before kickoff.
By all means, you should get off the grid. The sooner the better. In fact, if you could do it by Wednesday, that would be great. I'm willing to kick in a case of canned peaches to the first 50 people who get the fuck off the grid and stay off.
"Police officials said that a 30-minute security camera video they obtained showed the entrepreneur hitting and kicking his then girlfriend 117 times and attempting to suffocate her inside his $7 million San Francisco penthouse. Chahal's lawyers, however, claimed that police had illegally seized the video, and a judge ruled that the footage was inadmissible despite prosecutors' argument that officers didn't have time to secure a warrant out of fear that the tech executive would erase the footage.
Without the video, most of the charges were dropped, and Chahal, 34, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor battery charges of domestic violence... In Silicon Valley, critics have argued that Chahal's case and the lack of serious consequences he faced highlight the way in which privileged and wealthy businessmen can get away with serious misconduct.. On September 17, 2014, prosecutors say he attacked another woman in his home, leading to another arrest."
"We".
She was a CIA spook. We've both seen the movies: "The agency will disavow any knowledge of your actions."
Nobody's accountable anymore, and that's not the worst of it.
The internet is not a magical place where crimes committed across national borders aren't really crimes. If I'm at Niagra Falls, on the Canadian side of the border, and I use a high-powered rifle to kill someone's prized Hereford on the American side of the border, guess what? I committed a crime and I will be extradited. I can't say, "I'm on the Canadian side of the border, so I'm on glue!"
I would think that the nationality of the crime is determined to great extent by the location of the victim.
I don't know if it has happened specifically with online criminal activity, but Americans do get extradited to other countries.
There was a CIA agent who was involved with some rendition during the Bush Administration who got tried in absentia in Italy, found guilty and then shipped over there. Let me see if I can find it...yes. Here it is:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
Especially if it has a Grindr-like app for helping you to hookup with your cousins.
The people who are burned are the investors. People who had the poor judgement to think that a no-strings donation on Kickstarter or some other "indie" funding site will actually get them something in return.
It's a classic internet scam. Instead of ripping one person off for a lot of money, you rip off a LOT of people for a LITTLE money. With the new Supreme Court decision weakening class action lawsuits, you can just flip the finger and walk away to start another "indie" company and do the whole thing over again.
Think of the thousands and thousands of games that have been crowdfunded. Now count the number of those games that have actually gotten full, successful releases. It's a relative handful. All the people who donated to all the other projects are just SOL.
That's a detail that should have probably made it into the summary. No foreign assets have been seized. Yet.
I wonder what treaties and agreements come into play with this sort of thing, though, and how much leeway NZ really has in this.
This might also be an artifact less of the nature of our Constitution and instead the result of the Christian underpinnings of the nation. Remember, a lot of the early arrivals here, right up until the time of the Founding Fathers, believed that man was a fallen creature born in sin and requiring redemption. While that might not be a bad way to build a personal system of morality, it's a horrible way to build a social system. Also, the notion that there is an "elect" (which happens to coincide with "the rich") has caused us to revere wealth to the point that we measure human worth in terms of bank accounts (reputed or otherwise) and belongings. If you're rich and famous, you must be smart and virtuous. This is also an artifact of the religion of the early settlers. It's one reason why we ended up with a Constitution that puts several layers of elite between people and government. The USA was designed from the beginning to be a country government by the elite.
Unfortunately, this has so degraded people's ability to think that it might just be too late to convene a new constitutional convention. At this point, who knows what the hell we'd end up with?
It really seems like people just don't know how to behave any more.
I still play vinyl records. You can have the music I purchased when you wrest it from my cold, dead ears.
Tell you what, it's not going to be real dark skies, but it's better than downtown Chicago (where I'm from). I was in Hermann Park last night, and the viewing wasn't as bad as most cities I've been in.
Say, as a fellow Houstonian, can you give me any tips for decent camping nearby? I've only lived in Houston for 11 days (I got here on the first). It's my first time down here.
The viewing is good here in Texas. I'm in Houston, and not far from downtown, but because of the strange variations in population density here, and the complete lack of zoning laws, you can still find some relatively dark skies where I am.
I'd forgotten all about Perseid until I saw the second one and remembered this is August.
Clearly, Slashdot is carrying out political assassinations for the KKKlinton KKKrime Family, and your leak of their WHOIS data proves it. I'd head to the safe room if I were you. Trump 2016.
I know, right? He thinks he's so smart, but he's not smart like you. If he was really smart, why ain't he rich?
Where exactly do you think the 40-hour work week came from? How do you think it's managed to grow into a 60-hour work week, or even 80-hour? What happens to our society when not everyone has to work to create all the goods and services people need? I don't know how old you are, GPS Pilot, but if someone had told me in 1980 that in 2016 people would have to work MORE hours just to survive and have a house and send their kids to school, I'd have laughed at them. And do you think that maybe the reasons behind this have something to do with the exploding income inequality?
Yes, plumbers plumb. Do you know why they make a decent living? Here's a hint: http://www.ua.org/
Do you think it's a coincidence that there's been a concentrated effort by the economic elite to do away with organized labor and collective bargaining? It's an effort that's been going on since at least the day Ronald Reagan was elected president.
Most of your food and clothing come from sweat shops. Is that virtuous? Most of the housing is built by undocumented immigrants. Virtuous? Healthcare is still unionized, thank god, but that's under attack too.
Virtue is not part of the equation.
You were brought up wrong. And where do you get "nine out of ten"? Did you do a study of people asking for money on the street?