You know, there is no statute of limitations on counterfiting. You know why? The legal theory is that it's a crime that keeps on happening. Every time someone passes that phony bill, another crime has been committed. You don't think this kind of reasoning applies to stolen elections? Day after day, week after week, year after year, the disastrous results of those stolen elections continue to make the lives of untold millions of people more dangerous, whether here or in Baghdad. That too is a crime that keeps on giving, and the idea that that crime should somehow be "gotten over" is no more valid than the suggestion that the Treasury Dept. should "get over" a few phony bills that were printed years ago.
You know, if these characters had actually done a good job after stealing the election, if they had come up with some creative solutions to the world's problems, if they had done ANYTHING constructive that didn't involve increasing the profit margins of their corporate sponsors or lowering taxes for the megawealthy, nobody would care whether you stole the election. But your "ilk" goes out and steals a couple of federel elections and then you bollocks up half the world with your inane ideas about the place of religion in history and your unending greed and you just can't figure out why 70% of the American population think you are a bunch of lusers. Well, get over it. Criminal behavior has consequences. Whether it's stealing a hundred bucks from a liquor store or billions of dollars from the American tax payers.
What's your point, exactly? That the states can choose electors any way they want? You think there's a politician in this country with the balls to take presidential elections out of the hands of the voters?
Or do you think the electoral college somehow negates the need to prevent ethics-free politicos from stealing elections?
You really need to work on your presentation. Not everybody here is working from your 1950s set of assumptions.
Boy, have you been brainwashed. "Open-minded believers"? Don't forget "War is Peace" and "Freedom is Slavery."
The bible? You haven't figured out that the bible is just a hacked together conglomeration of ancient texts of varying reliability and historical value? You haven't figured out that the reliable evidence for an historical Jesus in the 1st Century is virtually nonexistent?
And this "sin" business? Now there's a psychological perversion that dwarfs any sexual deviation. I mean, you're all bad and the only way to be unbad is to go through some magical ritual that's only available from the official representatives of the local volcano god? Did the Renaissance never happen? Nor the scientific revolution? Or did you just not bother to read the directions that explained how to turn on your brain?
"Religion" is really too broad a term for this discussion. Compare, for example, Buddhism, which posits a one-to-one relationship between one's actions and one's position in the next incarnation, with Christianity, that claims to offer absolution from the most heinous of crimes upon becoming a Christian. And there seems to exist, at least in the public mind, the notion that Jesus will forgive just about anything no matter when the infraction occurs. I would submit that there is a fundamental difference in attitude here in regard to the nature of evil and the advisability of committing it. One has to think that the various dictators in the world who claim or have claimed to be Christians have this little caveat floating around somewhere in the backs of their minds.
"Sometimes that's how a democratically-elected government works. Deal with it."
You must have missed that business in Florida and Ohio. Let me guess. You watch Faux News?
And then you support your government when they overthrow a democratically elected government in Iran or Chile or Nicaragua? You seem to be able to deal with that just fine.
Allah is Elohim who, if I recall correctly, has a rather large role in the Hebrew Scriptures. "God" is simply a generic term from the German for Mercury, one of the original planetary gods of the Middle East. Let's here you say, "Elohim is a whore," Einstein.
"To whoever modded this as troll: 1. Britain has the most public cameras per capita. 2. It is illegal in Britain to refuse to surrender encryption keys to the police if they ask for them. 3. The proposal to jail people who committed crimes is now entering (even if does not pass) the consiousness of the mainstream. In any other "free" country, it would only be considered by the fringes of society. So was I really trolling? Is pointing out a trend in society trolling? As a comment to THIS article? Really?"
Slashdot is made up to a large extent of fairly conservative types--engineers and corporate IT folks especially--who, beyond their geekiness, are really rather unsophisticated believers in the status quo and anybody who suggests that the latest technological "advance" may not be the best thing for civilization is often modded down as "troll," whether they are actually trolling for any specific kind of reaction or not. There's no moderation category for "doesn't agree with my worldview." Just watch what happens to this posting.
What you guys may be missing is that when things go bonkers you sometimes have to reboot and then reboot again and then reboot again and then--you get the picture. THAT'S when boot time starts to get annoying. Not that it takes 15 seconds to boot but that it takes 15+15+15+15+ ad infinitum, each time sitting there twiddling your thumbs while Winders looks for its navel again.... Pain.
Or you could just install the free StartUp Manager from Gaffers: http://www.soft-ware.net/system/steuerung/systemst art/p00388.asp or from other places easily found by searching. Works fine with XP and other Win versions. Even shows you what programs have been added since last time you ran it. Hasn't been updated in years, but no reason to....
There's nothing wrong with the Diebold management that a shot of Brain-be-New IQ Enhancer wouldn't cure. Get your bottle now. Available at participating pharmacists and auto supply stores everywhere.
Of course you could download your page from your website using FTP and edit it that way, and you don't need web access, you just need FTP. I've been doing that for a while now, since I no longer have web access at work.
You can't get most people to even convert to a pen and tablet format, so it's no wonder all the new "advanced" GUIs are just cute little 3D graphics manipulations. Cripes! Look at the damned keyboard arrangement. They're still using the stupid Underwood QWERTY layout that had the keys in alphabetical order but the buttons all boloxed up. I have yet to see anything truly creative come out of these projects. They are still all based on the tyranny of the page. So now you can rotate it. Big deal.
The scary stuff is the videos put out by government agencies that often don't get credited properly by local news shows. Bet those don't show up on the FCC radar.
The world isn't always either/or. Both propositions could be true. Personally, I find HTML much more flexible than its perverted evil twin, CSS. Now there's something that's really stupid.
You may want to watch The War and Peace Report with Amy Goodman at DemocracyNow.org if you can drag yourself away from Faux News.
You also may want to go to Google News and type in "Israeli cluster bombs" and see what you get. Were you born a compleat idiot or did someone drop you on your head when you were three?
"I don't think you would being saying these things if the people in power were people you agree with."
Now that's a wingding of a statement!
If the people I agree with were in power they wouldn't be draining the national treasury, making my country the laughing stock of the world, murdering people by the thousands as well as supporting those who would do the same, destroying the very fabric of the U.S. government, loosing the religious fundamentalist fanatical nut jobs on the rest of us, destroying the constitution and throwing our rights to winds--do I need to go on? You are seriously worried about what the rightwing nutjobs are going to think about us? Screw the bastards. When I say these folks need to be prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, I'm not being hyperbolic. How many elections do these idiots have to steal before you characters grow some testicles?
I love the American ability to denigrate others by butchering their names. Veetnaam. Eye-Rack....
"Nice try, though, on trying to sound really cool, enlightened, and noble. What you really mean is that as long as it's only a few Jews being killed and the rest penned up in underground chambers, it's an acceptable situation. Think about it."
I am a Jew. You can find my family tree here: www.lordbalto.com. Go accuse somebody else of being an anti-Semite. It won't fly with me, Sonny. The Israelis continue to go out of their way to inflame their Arab neighbors while making no serious attempt to actually find solutions. They continue to look down their noses at the Arabs, both Moslem and Christian and Druze, and have the bloody nerve to use the equation they learned from the Nazies of ten dead Lebanese civilians for every dead civilian Israeli. As for trying to sound cool, you obviously have me confused with somebody who gives a shit about your idiot opinion.
"Wrong. Defaceing (sic) something is a violation of the law. I don't need to see what some moron did to know it's wrong, and I certainly don't want the guy pasting it in his scrapbook and being emboldened because he got some cheap and free publicity for his illegal act. Same way I wish the news media in Los Angeles would stop following car chases -- it takes something dangerous and gives it creedence (sic). There's no need for it."
Oh, well, if it's illegal. Gee, I guess that means that the administration will have to stop spying on Americans and Israel will have to stop colonizing land conquered in war. And maybe, while we're all so hopped up on obeying the law, we can all start observing the speed limit.
"So, after the Israelis left, why did Hexbollocks build undergound bunkers beneath mosques, missile storage facilities in civilian apartments, ammo dumps in hospitals, and launch missile attacks against civilians from schoolyards?"
Perhaps they mistakenly assumed that Israel had any regard whatsoever for the lives of anyone other than themselves.
Seriously though, this is the kind of rhetoric I would expect from someone who watches Faux News or who lives under Israeli wartime press censorship. I have personally seen no documentary evidence of any of the charges made in the above post. It is easy to rationalize atrocity when it supports your own worldview. I'm sure the Germans under Hitler were equally facile in their ability to justify the murder of millions of Jews and other minorities. In a nutshell, what the above poster is saying is that "they deserved to die." Tell that to the shades of the folks who died in the death camps. A pox on your house.
Oh, natural selection still works. Unfortunately, the world is so interconnected now that these modern day knuckle draggers threaten to take the rest of us with them. Society really needs to develop a mechanism for weeding out those who would do it irreparable harm. In the interim, I would suggest a constitutional amendment preventing anyone who has spent more than six months in Texas during his entire life from running for national office.
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"The feds argue in their petition that this precedent does not apply to them."
Nothing applies to them. They are living in Alternate Reality W.
You know, there is no statute of limitations on counterfiting. You know why? The legal theory is that it's a crime that keeps on happening. Every time someone passes that phony bill, another crime has been committed. You don't think this kind of reasoning applies to stolen elections? Day after day, week after week, year after year, the disastrous results of those stolen elections continue to make the lives of untold millions of people more dangerous, whether here or in Baghdad. That too is a crime that keeps on giving, and the idea that that crime should somehow be "gotten over" is no more valid than the suggestion that the Treasury Dept. should "get over" a few phony bills that were printed years ago.
You know, if these characters had actually done a good job after stealing the election, if they had come up with some creative solutions to the world's problems, if they had done ANYTHING constructive that didn't involve increasing the profit margins of their corporate sponsors or lowering taxes for the megawealthy, nobody would care whether you stole the election. But your "ilk" goes out and steals a couple of federel elections and then you bollocks up half the world with your inane ideas about the place of religion in history and your unending greed and you just can't figure out why 70% of the American population think you are a bunch of lusers. Well, get over it. Criminal behavior has consequences. Whether it's stealing a hundred bucks from a liquor store or billions of dollars from the American tax payers.
What's your point, exactly? That the states can choose electors any way they want? You think there's a politician in this country with the balls to take presidential elections out of the hands of the voters?
Or do you think the electoral college somehow negates the need to prevent ethics-free politicos from stealing elections?
You really need to work on your presentation. Not everybody here is working from your 1950s set of assumptions.
Boy, have you been brainwashed. "Open-minded believers"? Don't forget "War is Peace" and "Freedom is Slavery."
The bible? You haven't figured out that the bible is just a hacked together conglomeration of ancient texts of varying reliability and historical value? You haven't figured out that the reliable evidence for an historical Jesus in the 1st Century is virtually nonexistent?
And this "sin" business? Now there's a psychological perversion that dwarfs any sexual deviation. I mean, you're all bad and the only way to be unbad is to go through some magical ritual that's only available from the official representatives of the local volcano god? Did the Renaissance never happen? Nor the scientific revolution? Or did you just not bother to read the directions that explained how to turn on your brain?
"Religion" is really too broad a term for this discussion. Compare, for example, Buddhism, which posits a one-to-one relationship between one's actions and one's position in the next incarnation, with Christianity, that claims to offer absolution from the most heinous of crimes upon becoming a Christian. And there seems to exist, at least in the public mind, the notion that Jesus will forgive just about anything no matter when the infraction occurs. I would submit that there is a fundamental difference in attitude here in regard to the nature of evil and the advisability of committing it. One has to think that the various dictators in the world who claim or have claimed to be Christians have this little caveat floating around somewhere in the backs of their minds.
If it weren't for a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign, Mickey Fucking Mouse would be in the public domain right now.
"Sometimes that's how a democratically-elected government works. Deal with it."
You must have missed that business in Florida and Ohio. Let me guess. You watch Faux News?
And then you support your government when they overthrow a democratically elected government in Iran or Chile or Nicaragua? You seem to be able to deal with that just fine.
"Allah and God are completely different deities."
Allah is Elohim who, if I recall correctly, has a rather large role in the Hebrew Scriptures. "God" is simply a generic term from the German for Mercury, one of the original planetary gods of the Middle East. Let's here you say, "Elohim is a whore," Einstein.
"To whoever modded this as troll: 1. Britain has the most public cameras per capita. 2. It is illegal in Britain to refuse to surrender encryption keys to the police if they ask for them. 3. The proposal to jail people who committed crimes is now entering (even if does not pass) the consiousness of the mainstream. In any other "free" country, it would only be considered by the fringes of society. So was I really trolling? Is pointing out a trend in society trolling? As a comment to THIS article? Really?"
Slashdot is made up to a large extent of fairly conservative types--engineers and corporate IT folks especially--who, beyond their geekiness, are really rather unsophisticated believers in the status quo and anybody who suggests that the latest technological "advance" may not be the best thing for civilization is often modded down as "troll," whether they are actually trolling for any specific kind of reaction or not. There's no moderation category for "doesn't agree with my worldview." Just watch what happens to this posting.
What you guys may be missing is that when things go bonkers you sometimes have to reboot and then reboot again and then reboot again and then--you get the picture. THAT'S when boot time starts to get annoying. Not that it takes 15 seconds to boot but that it takes 15+15+15+15+ ad infinitum, each time sitting there twiddling your thumbs while Winders looks for its navel again.... Pain.
Or you could just install the free StartUp Manager from Gaffers: http://www.soft-ware.net/system/steuerung/systemst art/p00388.asp or from other places easily found by searching. Works fine with XP and other Win versions. Even shows you what programs have been added since last time you ran it. Hasn't been updated in years, but no reason to....
Spatial, Einstein.
There's nothing wrong with the Diebold management that a shot of Brain-be-New IQ Enhancer wouldn't cure. Get your bottle now. Available at participating pharmacists and auto supply stores everywhere.
Sounds good to me. Perhaps the Canadians who manage to vote on paper ballots without any signicant delay.
Of course you could download your page from your website using FTP and edit it that way, and you don't need web access, you just need FTP. I've been doing that for a while now, since I no longer have web access at work.
You can't get most people to even convert to a pen and tablet format, so it's no wonder all the new "advanced" GUIs are just cute little 3D graphics manipulations. Cripes! Look at the damned keyboard arrangement. They're still using the stupid Underwood QWERTY layout that had the keys in alphabetical order but the buttons all boloxed up. I have yet to see anything truly creative come out of these projects. They are still all based on the tyranny of the page. So now you can rotate it. Big deal.
The scary stuff is the videos put out by government agencies that often don't get credited properly by local news shows. Bet those don't show up on the FCC radar.
Fool.
The world isn't always either/or. Both propositions could be true. Personally, I find HTML much more flexible than its perverted evil twin, CSS. Now there's something that's really stupid.
You may want to watch The War and Peace Report with Amy Goodman at DemocracyNow.org if you can drag yourself away from Faux News.
You also may want to go to Google News and type in "Israeli cluster bombs" and see what you get. Were you born a compleat idiot or did someone drop you on your head when you were three?
"I don't think you would being saying these things if the people in power were people you agree with."
Now that's a wingding of a statement!
If the people I agree with were in power they wouldn't be draining the national treasury, making my country the laughing stock of the world, murdering people by the thousands as well as supporting those who would do the same, destroying the very fabric of the U.S. government, loosing the religious fundamentalist fanatical nut jobs on the rest of us, destroying the constitution and throwing our rights to winds--do I need to go on? You are seriously worried about what the rightwing nutjobs are going to think about us? Screw the bastards. When I say these folks need to be prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, I'm not being hyperbolic. How many elections do these idiots have to steal before you characters grow some testicles?
"hez"
I love the American ability to denigrate others by butchering their names. Veetnaam. Eye-Rack....
"Nice try, though, on trying to sound really cool, enlightened, and noble. What you really mean is that as long as it's only a few Jews being killed and the rest penned up in underground chambers, it's an acceptable situation. Think about it."
I am a Jew. You can find my family tree here: www.lordbalto.com. Go accuse somebody else of being an anti-Semite. It won't fly with me, Sonny. The Israelis continue to go out of their way to inflame their Arab neighbors while making no serious attempt to actually find solutions. They continue to look down their noses at the Arabs, both Moslem and Christian and Druze, and have the bloody nerve to use the equation they learned from the Nazies of ten dead Lebanese civilians for every dead civilian Israeli. As for trying to sound cool, you obviously have me confused with somebody who gives a shit about your idiot opinion.
"Wrong. Defaceing (sic) something is a violation of the law. I don't need to see what some moron did to know it's wrong, and I certainly don't want the guy pasting it in his scrapbook and being emboldened because he got some cheap and free publicity for his illegal act. Same way I wish the news media in Los Angeles would stop following car chases -- it takes something dangerous and gives it creedence (sic). There's no need for it."
Oh, well, if it's illegal. Gee, I guess that means that the administration will have to stop spying on Americans and Israel will have to stop colonizing land conquered in war. And maybe, while we're all so hopped up on obeying the law, we can all start observing the speed limit.
Perspective, son. Perspective.
"So, after the Israelis left, why did Hexbollocks build undergound bunkers beneath mosques, missile storage facilities in civilian apartments, ammo dumps in hospitals, and launch missile attacks against civilians from schoolyards?"
Perhaps they mistakenly assumed that Israel had any regard whatsoever for the lives of anyone other than themselves.
Seriously though, this is the kind of rhetoric I would expect from someone who watches Faux News or who lives under Israeli wartime press censorship. I have personally seen no documentary evidence of any of the charges made in the above post. It is easy to rationalize atrocity when it supports your own worldview. I'm sure the Germans under Hitler were equally facile in their ability to justify the murder of millions of Jews and other minorities. In a nutshell, what the above poster is saying is that "they deserved to die." Tell that to the shades of the folks who died in the death camps. A pox on your house.
Oh, natural selection still works. Unfortunately, the world is so interconnected now that these modern day knuckle draggers threaten to take the rest of us with them. Society really needs to develop a mechanism for weeding out those who would do it irreparable harm. In the interim, I would suggest a constitutional amendment preventing anyone who has spent more than six months in Texas during his entire life from running for national office.