I really would like to see these students' application essays. They don't sound like the brightest bulbs.
Also, can we please just make college free so banks can't continue to be loan sharks to young people? I mean, what the fuck. Kids are coming out of school with six-figure debt. That along with the fact that we've allowed corporations to disintegrate pensions and only a tiny percentage of people will ever have enough money to retire guarantees that there's a financial crisis coming that will make 2007-08 look like a walk in the park.
The Black Panthers were supporters of the 2nd Amendment and utilized that right to protect their communities from police oppression. They would fill one or more cars with visibly armed members and then follow Police Patrol vehicles around town. They'd get out of the car and stand around at a safe distance whenever the Police had an interaction with a member of the community. The Police were still perfectly able to engage in performing their job duties, but didn't dare try abusing their position with the Black Panthers keeping a close eye on them. From my understanding this action by the Black Panthers was actually what precipitated a lot of the anti open carry and 2nd Amendment efforts by various localities, in our modern era.
You seem to know the story without knowing the history.
Yes, the Black Panthers had a lot of guns. And the police still assassinated the leaders of the Black Panthers as they slept in their beds.
In the history of the United States, guns in civilian hands have been used much more often to take away or suppress people's liberty than to preserve it. The whole "Second Amendment keeps us free" myth is a complete crock of shit. The Second Amendment is a tool for tyrants - always has been.
Yes, but in a way, doesn't that make the story even more inspiring?
I don't know what's happened to so many Slashdot commenters who can't see beyond the mundane. Has the world beaten you down so much? "Mad" Mike Hughes has just pulled off one of the great "hold my beer" moments in history and you're pissing and moaning about it. (not you, quantaman. I think you can see a little bit of the beauty in what this crazy sonofabitch just did.)
He knows the Earth isn't flat, only a gibbering idiot believes that nonsense and this guy obviously has some logical ability to do what he did.
Don't be so bloody-minded. You're focused on the flat-earth nonsense and ignoring the beauty. Stop and smell the roses. Not everything has to be logical.
You will never experience glory unless you dream big. And as everyone knows, dreams are sometimes illogical.
He is a Troll. A really good one too.
Do you know where the name "troll" comes from? It somebody who hides under a bridge and snatches up goats and acts like an asshole. "Mad" Mike Hughes wasn't hiding (except maybe from the Bureau of Land Management) and he wasn't acting like an asshole. He didn't steal from anyone. He didn't hurt anyone. He wasn't mean to anyone. He went about his business and did something. There could not be anything less troll-like.
Hero? Seriously? Look up the word before applying it to a moron like this guy. "Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltrame" is the name of a hero. To try an apply the word to hughes simply sullies the real Heros of this world.
Don't be such a drama queen. There can be more than one hero in the world and they can be heroic for many reasons. And if that Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Beltran or whatever his name is was such a hero, whey didn't he just shoot the terrorist through the eye and save everyone? As your favorite president once said, "I like heroes who don't get captured".
No, not a troll at all. He might be crazy as a loon, but unlike a troll he's actually putting himself out there and risking something. He has skin in the game.
There were lots of videos and witnesses to his previous cancelled/failed launches.
This successful launch has no video (that's been shared) and scant witnesses.
Of course there was video. VIdeo of the launch and video of paramedics extracting him from the crashed spacecraft. More than one video, too. The main one was shot by an AP cameraman. All sorts of witnesses, too.
Where did you get the idea there were no videos or photos?
So let me get this straight, his original goal was to prove Earth is flat and he tried to do that with steam powered contraption... and according to you it doesn't matter because he tried something very stupid which you find exciting and that is the American spirit and everybody should be excited for this idiot?
Yes, that's about right.
You sound like a trump supporter.
Trump is nothing like "Mad" Mike Hughes. First of all, he doesn't have anywhere near the conviction or courage. Second, "Mad" Mike Hughes did the actual work himself and actually risked something for his nutty obsession. Third, he followed through on his plan and didn't leave behind a long line of stiffed contractors.
I know he's crazy but he does seem to have some skills.
I mean, right? He's 61 goddamn years old. Most 61 year olds' biggest concern is an enlarged prostate and their blood sugar levels. This crazy bastard is trying to launch himself into space from the roof of a mobile home. I cannot understand how I'm maybe the only one here who can see how truly wonderful this is.
Shame on you. If "Mad" Mike Hughes had connected 1000 Raspberry Pis and 1000 Geforce 1080s into a Beowulf cluster in order to mine something called "cryptocurrency" which will replace all the world's currencies, you'd be cheering and calling him the second coming of Notch or some shit.
This guy sat down and designed and built a homemade rocket and launchpad. He's 100 times the nerd you are.
That doesn't matter. None of the flat earth stuff matters. Columbus thought he was sailing to India.
"Mad" Mike Hughes embodies the real American spirit. He had a dream and he put his life on the line for it and shot himself into the air on a homemade goddamn rocket. It's the unifying concept of Westward, Ho! except he was already in California and couldn't go West any more, so he turned a goddamn mobile home into a goddamn launch pad.
Jesus, if you guys can't see how magnificent that is, your souls have been hollowed out.
The 61-year-old limo driver converted a mobile home into a ramp and modified it to launch from a vertical angle so he wouldn't fall back to the ground on public land. For months he's been working on overhauling his rocket in his garage.
Here's some synchronicity: As I was reading your comment, I can hear Van Morrison singing "She Moved Through The Fair" with the Chieftans playing on my wife's computer in the next room. I know that's probably not the kind of traditional Irish music you might have been talking about, but it's still a clever coincidence.
Absolutely wrong the main resistance to pornography is now coming from the hard left feminists. You are misinformed.
No sir. Did you know, for example, that the 2016 Republican Party platform, which was formed at the RNC convention that nominated Donald Trump declared pornography a pubic health hazard?
Here is the language from the official party platform:
"Pornography, with its harmful effects, especially on children, has become a public health crisis that is destroying the lives of millions. We encourage states to continue to fight this public menace and pledge our commitment to children’s safety and well-being."
I don't know how much porn the Utah government downloads, but according to a researcher at Harvard [deseretnews.com], the *people* of Utah are quite the dawgs, which was my point.
No dude, your point was that "Porn has nothing to worry about from the Right". But the fact is, people who are going after pornography are almost exclusively on the Right. Feminist opposition to pornography has been steadily shrinking since the 1970s. Now you will find that most feminists' only concerns about pornography is that women making pornography are kept safe from the violent tendencies of their male cohorts.
Now the current President's propensity for giving high-paying work to porn stars may change that, but for the time being, porn has everything to worry about from the Right. Perhaps the First Lady's own past will change people's perception of sex workers.
Porn has nothing to worry about from the Right, and knows it I even read someplace that Utah is the state with the largest number of porn downloads, on the average.
No offense, but are you stupid? Here is something the (Republican) governor of Utah and the (Republican) legislature of Utah did just a few years ago. In case your intellectual disability precludes you from being able to click on a link, Utah was the first state to pass laws declaring pornography a public health hazard.
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Nope.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/p...
The federal government doesn't profit on student loans. Banks do.
https://www.rollingstone.com/p...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/p...
I really would like to see these students' application essays. They don't sound like the brightest bulbs.
Also, can we please just make college free so banks can't continue to be loan sharks to young people? I mean, what the fuck. Kids are coming out of school with six-figure debt. That along with the fact that we've allowed corporations to disintegrate pensions and only a tiny percentage of people will ever have enough money to retire guarantees that there's a financial crisis coming that will make 2007-08 look like a walk in the park.
You seem to know the story without knowing the history.
Yes, the Black Panthers had a lot of guns. And the police still assassinated the leaders of the Black Panthers as they slept in their beds.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
In the history of the United States, guns in civilian hands have been used much more often to take away or suppress people's liberty than to preserve it. The whole "Second Amendment keeps us free" myth is a complete crock of shit. The Second Amendment is a tool for tyrants - always has been.
Ours is not to reason why.
The video where he is on the ground, you can clearly see that he's already on a backboard.
Who was another magnificent bastard.
Dude, it was steam-powered. My man launched himself in a steampunk rocket.
Yes, but in a way, doesn't that make the story even more inspiring?
I don't know what's happened to so many Slashdot commenters who can't see beyond the mundane. Has the world beaten you down so much? "Mad" Mike Hughes has just pulled off one of the great "hold my beer" moments in history and you're pissing and moaning about it. (not you, quantaman. I think you can see a little bit of the beauty in what this crazy sonofabitch just did.)
Don't be so bloody-minded. You're focused on the flat-earth nonsense and ignoring the beauty. Stop and smell the roses. Not everything has to be logical.
You will never experience glory unless you dream big. And as everyone knows, dreams are sometimes illogical.
Do you know where the name "troll" comes from? It somebody who hides under a bridge and snatches up goats and acts like an asshole. "Mad" Mike Hughes wasn't hiding (except maybe from the Bureau of Land Management) and he wasn't acting like an asshole. He didn't steal from anyone. He didn't hurt anyone. He wasn't mean to anyone. He went about his business and did something. There could not be anything less troll-like.
Don't be such a drama queen. There can be more than one hero in the world and they can be heroic for many reasons. And if that Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Beltran or whatever his name is was such a hero, whey didn't he just shoot the terrorist through the eye and save everyone? As your favorite president once said, "I like heroes who don't get captured".
https://www.thelocal.it/201512...
No, not a troll at all. He might be crazy as a loon, but unlike a troll he's actually putting himself out there and risking something. He has skin in the game.
Of course there was video. VIdeo of the launch and video of paramedics extracting him from the crashed spacecraft. More than one video, too. The main one was shot by an AP cameraman. All sorts of witnesses, too.
Where did you get the idea there were no videos or photos?
https://gizmodo.com/at-long-la...
No, not only on Slashdot.
https://splinternews.com/tille...
Yes, that's about right.
Trump is nothing like "Mad" Mike Hughes. First of all, he doesn't have anywhere near the conviction or courage. Second, "Mad" Mike Hughes did the actual work himself and actually risked something for his nutty obsession. Third, he followed through on his plan and didn't leave behind a long line of stiffed contractors.
No bone spurs on Mad Mike. No sir.
I mean, right? He's 61 goddamn years old. Most 61 year olds' biggest concern is an enlarged prostate and their blood sugar levels. This crazy bastard is trying to launch himself into space from the roof of a mobile home. I cannot understand how I'm maybe the only one here who can see how truly wonderful this is.
Shame on you. If "Mad" Mike Hughes had connected 1000 Raspberry Pis and 1000 Geforce 1080s into a Beowulf cluster in order to mine something called "cryptocurrency" which will replace all the world's currencies, you'd be cheering and calling him the second coming of Notch or some shit.
This guy sat down and designed and built a homemade rocket and launchpad. He's 100 times the nerd you are.
That doesn't matter. None of the flat earth stuff matters. Columbus thought he was sailing to India.
"Mad" Mike Hughes embodies the real American spirit. He had a dream and he put his life on the line for it and shot himself into the air on a homemade goddamn rocket. It's the unifying concept of Westward, Ho! except he was already in California and couldn't go West any more, so he turned a goddamn mobile home into a goddamn launch pad.
Jesus, if you guys can't see how magnificent that is, your souls have been hollowed out.
This dude is a fucking inspiration.
"Mad" Mike Hughes, I salute you.
Here's some synchronicity: As I was reading your comment, I can hear Van Morrison singing "She Moved Through The Fair" with the Chieftans playing on my wife's computer in the next room. I know that's probably not the kind of traditional Irish music you might have been talking about, but it's still a clever coincidence.
Jobs was an innovator the same way Led Zeppelin invented the blues.
You're supposed to wipe your hands on your pants when you come out of the men's room. Don't handle your phone with wet hands. That's just nasty.
No sir. Did you know, for example, that the 2016 Republican Party platform, which was formed at the RNC convention that nominated Donald Trump declared pornography a pubic health hazard?
Here is the language from the official party platform:
https://prod-cdn-static.gop.co...
The Democratic Party, which as we know is controlled by the radical feminists, had no such language.
No dude, your point was that "Porn has nothing to worry about from the Right". But the fact is, people who are going after pornography are almost exclusively on the Right. Feminist opposition to pornography has been steadily shrinking since the 1970s. Now you will find that most feminists' only concerns about pornography is that women making pornography are kept safe from the violent tendencies of their male cohorts.
Now the current President's propensity for giving high-paying work to porn stars may change that, but for the time being, porn has everything to worry about from the Right. Perhaps the First Lady's own past will change people's perception of sex workers.
No offense, but are you stupid? Here is something the (Republican) governor of Utah and the (Republican) legislature of Utah did just a few years ago. In case your intellectual disability precludes you from being able to click on a link, Utah was the first state to pass laws declaring pornography a public health hazard.
http://www.newsweek.com/utah-p...