What you need is someone who can steer a power-mad and basically unbalanced person into doing something you want them to do, to point out how it's really in their best interests also.
This is exactly the discussion the leaders of the G7 are having today about Donald Trump.
Well, when the fit hits the shan, now you know where to go. Instead of being an ass, you should be sending pope daddy a couple of cases of creamed corn in cans, some bottled water, and a request to be his friend.
You know the rule: Gas, grass or ass, nobody rides for free.
I hope you registered every single one of those firearms with the State of California, and that all of them (and any accessories such as magazines) are 100% compliant with our laws here. Otherwise you are once again breaking the law.
Completely compliant, thank you very much, including with California Penal Code 26150 and 26155.
I believe in citizenship and the rule of law and punching Nazis and all that good American stuff.
Not legally in the State of California, where you reside.
I've only recently moved to California from Houston, you creepy stalky fuck. I've lived all over the US. My gun buying days are behind me. I'm standing pat.
With the precedent set by the Gaye vs. Thicke [oup.com] court case (ruling upheld [tennessean.com] by 9th circuit court of appeals this year), you are committing copyright infringement when you write a song that "feels" like some other song.
No. Robin Thicke didn't lose because his song "felt" like Got To Give It Up. He lost because his song WAS Got To Give It Up. He copied the Marvin Gaye song.
Now, we should discuss whether the copyright on Got To Give It Up should have expired a decade ago. I would say that yes, it should have expired. But as long as the copyright was in effect, what Robin Thicke did was a straight-up violation.
So your years of complaints and invective on the matter boil down to, "Our system is soooo f-----d! Why the hell isn't anyone arresting me for what I did?"
No sir. My argument boils down to, "I should be allowed to own guns because I'm willing to register them, demonstrate my ability to operate and maintain them and insure them against misuse. And you should not be allowed to own guns because you're a jackoff."
Just look at history, it's how the automobile, the integrated circuit, the telephone, the light bulb, the laser printer, and digital cameras were created! Progressive science policy FTW!Or, you could look at how the Internet, manned space flight, the interstate highway system and nuclear energy were created, you stupid sonofabitch.
Considering that internet providers are fighting tooth and nail to do as little as possible to provide service, and the fact that a monopoly has no incentive to upgrade their infrastructure, how long will it be before a reasonable number of people have sufficient ping times for this? Decades?
Good point. This will be a premium service, no doubt, but there were also people questioning what would happen when Netflix and streaming services were becoming huge.
GeForce NOW might be a premium service when it rolls out for PCs & Macs. But's already been running commercially for the Nvidia Shield for a while with success. I hope they make it because it's a terrific product.
Just remember it was the butt-hurt Democrats that insisted on electronic voting after Al Gore showed Hillary how to win the popular vote but lose the election.
No, sweetie. Democrats were demanding paper ballots and paper trails long before the 2000 election. The miserable way the Florida 2000 election was run, with the defective-by-design hole punch ballots, was just more incentive.
It's been 30 years since a Republican has won the popular vote for president. Think on that for a second.
Forcing? No one is chaining them to the desk. There are plenty of people who'd love to have a job like that.
The Amtrak ticket agent in my sleepy little town is one of my favorite people. When I need to get to LA or San Francisco, I don't even bother going online, because I enjoy talking to him so much. He's an old dude, plays a mean harp and is a big Warriors fan. Led a very interesting life. I expect to see him at the local in a few hours to watch the game. Now that you've made me think of him, I plan to buy him a pint of 805, which is his preferred.
I've been beta-testing this GeForce NOW cloud gaming thing from Nvidia. It's terrific. I can play the latest AAA games on an old potato with everything on high or ultra. I'm not joking. I can play games that were never released for Mac on my wife's Macbook Pro. Even games where I don't meet anywhere near the minimum requirements. No lag, no stuttering. Multiplayer games. FPS games. Racing games. Works flawlessly for me. The beta forums have people saying they're getting lag on PUBG or Fortnite but I haven't seen it.
The only catch is that you need a fast internet connection with pretty much zero packet loss and jitter. I had some problems at first and I thought it might be Geforce Now, but after bugging the hell out of my ISP they replaced some wire and skipped over some old splitters and now I have this fast, pristine connection and there's no AAA game I can't play. It still remains to be seen how much they're gonna charge for this service when the time comes, but I'm honestly getting a little tired of updating my system every 2 years to play the latest games, so it might be worth it to me.
Also, cloud gaming uses a shit-ton of bandwidth, so if you have data caps, it might not be for you. But cloud gaming is absolutely awesome. Will it eventually replace games running on local machines? It might. Probably not any time soon, especially since not all publishers are participating. For example, while GeForce NOW supports just about anything on Steam, they don't support Origin games yet. Probably because they're planning to set up their own cloud gaming service.
Just a reminder that Republicans are fighting every initiative to require paper ballots in the US. Even in the rare red state where a paper ballot initiative has been put forth by a Republican lawmaker, the state party has fought it and they only passed with the full support of Democrats.
The revenues to the federal government increased by a factor of nearly 2.
But I thought Ronald Reagan was a small government guy. Why would he want the government to get even more money?
And was the "Reagan Boom" due to any of his policies or thanks to the fact that the information revolution hit its stride during his term? I mean, the fact that in the 80's every single business on earth started buying computers for their employees might have had a good effect on the economy. And further, Reagan raised taxes, just not on the rich or on corporations.
You deny that the Reagan boom raised tax revenue much more than the Reagan tax cuts lowered it?
And yet somehow, the deficit and debt increased. Do you deny that since the US adopted "supply-side" trickle-down economics that our national debt has grown?
Oh yeah, BTW 59 isn't really part of the greatest generation, they are the boomers.
Well, that's just like, your opinion, man. I believe the boomers are the greatest generation. The generation before boomers didn't even have cell phones or video games so how could they be "greatest"?
And may I say you still look pretty good for your age? And you appear to have most of your faculties. I salute you members of the Greatest Generation. Sometime, you'll have to tell us what it was like when Vietnam invaded California and how you charged your phones at Woodstock.
Trump's actions since taking office include some left wing tactics of protectionism and tariffs.
Protectionism has been a feature of both left and right-wing governments. It is generally considered to be outside the spectrum of left/right politics.
It is most closely associated with mercantilism, which was basically an effort by England to establish economic hegemony over other countries.
America has been plunging into debt (not slowly) since Vietnam.
The rate of debt growth in the US grew at about the same rate from WWII to 1980 (the Vietnam war ended in 1975). It wasn't "plunging". It didn't start to explode until Ronald Reagan took office. If you want to point to a cause of national debt, you can point to trickle-down economics, which has been the US flavor of late-stage capitalism since 1980 through today. Supply side doesn't work. It was voodoo then, and it's voodoo now.
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This is exactly the discussion the leaders of the G7 are having today about Donald Trump.
You know the rule: Gas, grass or ass, nobody rides for free.
Completely compliant, thank you very much, including with California Penal Code 26150 and 26155.
I believe in citizenship and the rule of law and punching Nazis and all that good American stuff.
I've only recently moved to California from Houston, you creepy stalky fuck. I've lived all over the US. My gun buying days are behind me. I'm standing pat.
A Trump-lover calling someone corrupt? Your tongue should swell up, turn black and fall right out your mouth.
No. Robin Thicke didn't lose because his song "felt" like Got To Give It Up. He lost because his song WAS Got To Give It Up. He copied the Marvin Gaye song.
Now, we should discuss whether the copyright on Got To Give It Up should have expired a decade ago. I would say that yes, it should have expired. But as long as the copyright was in effect, what Robin Thicke did was a straight-up violation.
No sir. My argument boils down to, "I should be allowed to own guns because I'm willing to register them, demonstrate my ability to operate and maintain them and insure them against misuse. And you should not be allowed to own guns because you're a jackoff."
I hope that clears things up.
Yes, I'm referring to gun dealers who go to shows and claim to be "private sellers".
If you've ever been to a gun show, you've seen them. As a lifelong gun owner,, I've actually purchased guns from these characters.
So was Donald Trump.
http://time.com/3962799/donald...
https://www.politico.com/story...
https://www.vanityfair.com/sty...
Except for the non-licensed dealers at gun shows who don't have to do any background checks at all.
It's 2018 and there's no reason why someone who has committed fraud shouldn't believe they deserve to have more people give them money.
Crimes don't matter, fraud doesn't matter, lies don't matter. We're living in the post-truth age.
Rooster, you make it too easy.
https://www.rawstory.com/news/...
https://gizmodo.com/5825014/ho...
https://www.vanityfair.com/new...
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/1...
https://www.motherjones.com/me...
There. I've given you the truth. Do what you will.
Good point. This will be a premium service, no doubt, but there were also people questioning what would happen when Netflix and streaming services were becoming huge.
GeForce NOW might be a premium service when it rolls out for PCs & Macs. But's already been running commercially for the Nvidia Shield for a while with success. I hope they make it because it's a terrific product.
In 2004, Ohio and Pennsylvania used Diebold machines.
No, sweetie. Democrats were demanding paper ballots and paper trails long before the 2000 election. The miserable way the Florida 2000 election was run, with the defective-by-design hole punch ballots, was just more incentive.
It's been 30 years since a Republican has won the popular vote for president. Think on that for a second.
The Amtrak ticket agent in my sleepy little town is one of my favorite people. When I need to get to LA or San Francisco, I don't even bother going online, because I enjoy talking to him so much. He's an old dude, plays a mean harp and is a big Warriors fan. Led a very interesting life. I expect to see him at the local in a few hours to watch the game. Now that you've made me think of him, I plan to buy him a pint of 805, which is his preferred.
I've been beta-testing this GeForce NOW cloud gaming thing from Nvidia. It's terrific. I can play the latest AAA games on an old potato with everything on high or ultra. I'm not joking. I can play games that were never released for Mac on my wife's Macbook Pro. Even games where I don't meet anywhere near the minimum requirements. No lag, no stuttering. Multiplayer games. FPS games. Racing games. Works flawlessly for me. The beta forums have people saying they're getting lag on PUBG or Fortnite but I haven't seen it.
The only catch is that you need a fast internet connection with pretty much zero packet loss and jitter. I had some problems at first and I thought it might be Geforce Now, but after bugging the hell out of my ISP they replaced some wire and skipped over some old splitters and now I have this fast, pristine connection and there's no AAA game I can't play. It still remains to be seen how much they're gonna charge for this service when the time comes, but I'm honestly getting a little tired of updating my system every 2 years to play the latest games, so it might be worth it to me.
Also, cloud gaming uses a shit-ton of bandwidth, so if you have data caps, it might not be for you. But cloud gaming is absolutely awesome. Will it eventually replace games running on local machines? It might. Probably not any time soon, especially since not all publishers are participating. For example, while GeForce NOW supports just about anything on Steam, they don't support Origin games yet. Probably because they're planning to set up their own cloud gaming service.
Just a reminder that Republicans are fighting every initiative to require paper ballots in the US. Even in the rare red state where a paper ballot initiative has been put forth by a Republican lawmaker, the state party has fought it and they only passed with the full support of Democrats.
http://humphreyonthehill.tnjou...
https://www.cnet.com/news/repu...
http://www.governing.com/topic...
But I thought Ronald Reagan was a small government guy. Why would he want the government to get even more money?
And was the "Reagan Boom" due to any of his policies or thanks to the fact that the information revolution hit its stride during his term? I mean, the fact that in the 80's every single business on earth started buying computers for their employees might have had a good effect on the economy. And further, Reagan raised taxes, just not on the rich or on corporations.
And yet somehow, the deficit and debt increased. Do you deny that since the US adopted "supply-side" trickle-down economics that our national debt has grown?
http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
Well, that's just like, your opinion, man. I believe the boomers are the greatest generation. The generation before boomers didn't even have cell phones or video games so how could they be "greatest"?
And may I say you still look pretty good for your age? And you appear to have most of your faculties. I salute you members of the Greatest Generation. Sometime, you'll have to tell us what it was like when Vietnam invaded California and how you charged your phones at Woodstock.
Protectionism has been a feature of both left and right-wing governments. It is generally considered to be outside the spectrum of left/right politics.
It is most closely associated with mercantilism, which was basically an effort by England to establish economic hegemony over other countries.
The rate of debt growth in the US grew at about the same rate from WWII to 1980 (the Vietnam war ended in 1975). It wasn't "plunging". It didn't start to explode until Ronald Reagan took office. If you want to point to a cause of national debt, you can point to trickle-down economics, which has been the US flavor of late-stage capitalism since 1980 through today. Supply side doesn't work. It was voodoo then, and it's voodoo now.