Put me on your notification list for when you're done, if you don't mind. And I'm expecting you're aware of them - I'm suspecting that you're not using them.:D They actually aren't as bad as I'd expected. They can be hell to pay attention to while driving in traffic. I could probably text a novel while driving and have fewer distractions than I have when listening and driving. I've reached the point where I tend to wait until I'm on the highway or away from traffic before listening. The missus doesn't much care for them so she's got headphones but sometimes she listens politely.
As I said, I'm not so arrogant as to make a suggestion as to genre or narrator but I suspect you'll find some you like. If you're really wanting to feed your addiction AND you spend some time in a car (which I seem to recall you having mentioned in the past - which is why I brought it up) then it might be something to look into.
So you don't want to have a meaningful dialogue and just want to read what you wrote. That's okay but you should just be upfront and honest about it.
And, I politely disagree with your definition of what makes a newbie. The knowledge of other people doesn't matter. What matters, in my opinion, is the time in service.
Would you say that someone who's been a staffer for 20 years is a newbie - even though it's likely that nobody has heard of them? That seems disingenuous unless you're saying they're a newb to football or similar.
It's curious that your assertion is that I get over myself when it's not I who is unwilling to engage in meaningful, objective, and honest discourse. You're free to be you and you're free to levy any accusations you want but it's exceedingly difficult to respect someone who's spouting gibberish as if they, and they alone, are the dictator of definitions.
But no... It is *I* who should get over himself. *sighs* I doubt you've the introspection or self-awareness to see this and want to try anew so I'll skip offering you the chance to do so. If you ever do reach the point where you're able to be honest with yourself, give it a try. It can be a bit painful but the end results are often worth the pain and they may make you a better person.
Nope, as far as I know, if you have a negative modifier then it is not something you can disable in your settings. I have this on good authority - from a poor guy who'd made (I checked) one comment that got them mod bombed into hell. He's limited to something like 4 posts per day and they must be an hour apart.
I didn't believe him so I went through is posts and he really did make one comment - not even a bad comment but it was wrong. It seems some folks took offense and I learned something new.
Just because it stops at -1 where it shows? The -1 mods STILL impact their final kama score. In other words, he was moderated to -100 (or lower) from one comment even though the -1 was all that showed.
He'd made a comment about the TSA only being allowed to search certain baggage and that there were some things you could do in an airport that you can't actually do. You USED to be able to do those things. The bit about the TSA was wrong. He also said it in a way that came off as reading cocky - but I don't think it was, I'd read their earlier posts and really spent some time looking at it.
He well and truly got fucked by the system. He indicates that the notification system had him at at least 100 downvotes - even though it stops displaying them at -1.
I had no idea it was possible but there was proof. I went through a TON of his comments since and prior. He was fairly new, only a few comments prior.
I told him to burn the account and get a new one. I think they're the only one I've ever suggested do that. I have no idea if they did but I hope so. I mean, seriously, he was needlessly bombed. I don't know if the practice continues to this day but it's crazy. He posts at -1 by default, can not change it, and I'm going out on a limb to say that he surely didn't deserve it.
Yes, he was wrong. Yes, he was (seemingly) snooty about it. At the time, it was a very emotionally charged subject. I suspect you can recollect when that was an important and emotional subject for everyone here. But, I don't think he got treated fairly. I think he's the only one I feel sorry for - part of that is from reading his other comments. He's not really snooty, it's just that his writing style is easily interpreted as that. It looks like one person took offense and then the rest slammed on him. He didn't even have a lot of follow-up comments (maybe three or four) and that was the end of his account. He'd only had a few comments prior. He still used the account YEARS later. I didn't discover this person (or their history) until after the start of 2016. Yeah, he's been posting with that limited account and, according to him, exclusively with that limited account ever since.
I gotta respect that part of it.
Again, he was wrong. There's no doubt about it. Part of what he said had been right up until just a little while before the date of his post - as in six months prior he'd have been correct. He said that he got "more than 100 downvotes" (not verbatim) and has been that way since. I think that's unfair but suggested he just generate a new account. He was sort of hell bent on trying to get his account back to normal. If I moderated then I'd have moderated in a biased fashion just to try to help him out. I do not moderate, however. So, that didn't happen.
Umm... Hmm... You might want to check that figure again. They've got hydrocodone in very low amounts - down as low as 2.5 mg and it's much weaker than oxycodone - the smallest of which that I've seen is 5, 7.5, and 10 mg. They'll get a low-level user a euphoric state but tolerance will be built up quickly. Codeine, in lo quantities, does the same - a 1 mg dose of hydromorphone will get you a decent rush if administered via IV - not so much orally but it will still get you the euphoric state.
It really varies with the person. It really varies with the tolerance. It really varies with history, weight, and chemicals - as well as the number of receptors that are built in - prior to their growth and whatnot.
So, I don't know? In other words, I think it'd be possible to become physically dependent on them but that people would be LESS likely to do so. That's discounting abuses - it's VERY likely that such low doses will not have the desired effect. That WILL lead to abuse. That WILL lead to surreptitious acquisitions. (Probably starting with friends and family and then working to street and, eventually, to harder things as those are often more readily available and that dosage will continue to climb.)
I don't know how many people will "try" to get addicted but you're probably right - there probably will be some. There are those with a genetic predisposition to it - they call that an addictive personality and those people are not often physically addicted (in case you're curious) but have underlying mental issues.
Absolutely. Something habit forming and even addictive does not need to be life crippling. I was a functional user for many, many years. I started using in the end of the 1960s. I stopped using opiates, pretty much entirely, just a few months ago. I stopped using ILLEGAL opiates about a year ago. (I'd been on Suboxone since then.)
I was/am very successful. I am well rewarded and have more money than I deserve. I can continue my drug use with absolutely zero chance of that use affecting my financial situation - I simply make more money by means of my investments than I can even possibly use - I could supply multiple addicts, indefinitely, with just the income from my investment-based income. In fact, I have. I used to keep as much as full 8 ounces of coke on hand (I don't mind coke, I don't seem to be able to get addicted. After a couple of days, I put it away and don't touch it again for a while. I have no idea but it might be because my preference is downers.) I used to order Fentanyl patches by the 5000 lot - yes, 5000. Fentanyl is 80 times more powerful than 100% pure heroin. It's the strongest opiate meant for human consumption that's available from a pharmacy. There's a slightly stronger version that is developed but it is for animal use - largely used for animals the size of elephants.
I found out they were cutting shitty h with Fentanyl and that's when I went and found me some Fent and had a good old time. (I was also smart(ish) in that I made sure to remember that you can put more in but you can't take it back out - I've never once ODed to the point where I needed intervention. - with all those years of use.)
I didn't use via IV until the mid-1980s. I was a snorter, sublingual, and eater. Even then, that didn't scale up until the 1990s - I had work to do. My tolerance got to the point where it became uneconomical to consume it in any other way - I wasn't always financially secure. My retirement seemed to tell my brain that it no longer had to work. As near as I can tell, my use didn't actually increase - it stayed largely the same. It's that something in my brain changed - something that I don't really understand. It's like it said, "Well, I no longer have to be functional. Cool." This also happened with alcohol. I drank longer than I used. I did, with a lot of illness, quit drinking over 3.5 years ago and have remained sober since - I have had as many as two beverages at one sitting since but never more and never frequently. I've probably done so less than a half-d
I can guarantee you that they put no such thought into it. Nope. You may well be giving a very good observation and, indeed, at first blush it appears you are. They, on the other hand, gave it no such consideration and simply went with what looked good, was affordable, was reliable, and was reasonably easy - as well as easy to put into footage that gave the implications they wanted.
I am not a graphics guy - not even remotely. So, thank you. Do you happen to have more information or, perhaps, a link that will put that stuff into laymen's terms? I don't want to make you work but I really do prefer the good Slashdot explanations more than I prefer the blasé stuff you get from Wikipedia or whatnot.
It's also sometimes effective on starters. *nods* A wooden dowel and a rubber mallet is a must in any real mechanics toolbox.:D
I'm suffering a brain fart. The piece that comes out and pushes into the flywheel to spin it up and start the car sometimes gets stuck and a good healthy whack is often enough to teach it a lesson. Stater? I forget the name and I'm too lazy to Google. While I am an automotive aficonado and I do work on my own cars a little bit, I do not always remember things well and I tend to actually pay people to do the work for me as I hate splitting open my fingers and getting grease lodged in my hand deeply enough that it's nearly impossible to entirely eradicate.
About 15 years ago, they added the politics section. And, I guess, rightfully so as politics does have an impact on technology. So, I'm going to have to disagree and I'm not sure why you'd play the idiot game of "I'm sure this won't see the light of day." Are you the same 'tard that's been running around lately saying stuff like, "Oh, I'm sure this will get me moderated -1?" 'Cause, if so, you're an idiot.
You're an AC. You have no say. Your opinion is the lowest of values. We care not what you think and generally don't even care what you say. Hell, I'm about the only one who'll talk to an AC and that's just because I know all of you aren't functionally retarded. In fact, there's one (two, sort of) that I'm in regular communication with - who are very much not retarded. (Hi "AC" who's real name I'm not going to use.)
You can tell him, the one I speak of, by the way he calls me by my first name. In fact, when I first bumped into him I thought he might actually have been someone who used to work for my company but that's not true.
But the rest of you? Shit... I've seen more insightful posts on Yahoo Answers.
He does. As I mentioned above, there's an independent documentary with him in it from back when he was in a Romanian prison and not yet extradited. His story is pretty consistent. It's called "The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet." Watch it. Then comment.
The reality is, we know about her server (initially) because of his actions. Yup. We've kind of whitewashed that and we now claim it came to light via different means but the time line indicates otherwise.
He's in a documentary that's from before he was shipped here and while he was serving time in Romania. It's called something like, "The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet." It's worth watching and is easily found online at your favorite torrent site - it was free in a bundle thingy (I think) but I'm sure there are many ways to get it - there's probably streaming versions.
Umm... You're not only not a lawyer but you're not actually familiar with the judicial system - are you? I'm not sure that any of the things you stated are correct. As I read it for a third time, I'm pretty sure that none of what you said is correct - including the first sentence.
What prompted you to make your comment? What makes you think she can't be charged for violating an executive order, for instance? The next bit about statutes? Well, that's not even wrong - it's just gibberish. Finally, I have no idea what the hell you're trying to say at the end.
I've seen you post before and you're not normally retarded. Am I missing something? I mean that, you're literally normally sane and reasonably correct. WTF is this shit from you? It's gibberish - most of it's not even wrong and what is wrong is just so bizarre that I'm not sure how the hell you reached these conclusions.
So, I'm sitting here thinking that I must be missing something - you're not normally retarded. For lack of a better solution, I'm going to have to ask for some citations and, well, I think I'm going to need to see some precedent and court findings - those should be easy to find to support your claim(s). Trust me - I went and looked before typing this. I thought that I must be the one in error.
Just so you know, that bit about the Marines being the only branch of the service to blah blah blah and not needing things like Congressional approval - that's not actually correct. There's some strange misinterpretations going on out there based on "and other orders as the President directs." (I think that's verbatim.) However. No. That's not what that means. Not even remotely.
Now, the Marines might listen - I suppose. I really doubt it. We're sworn to uphold the Constitution and, believe it or not, we take our oath(s) seriously - as we do our traditions. I'm trying to think of a realistic situation in which that might happen and I just can't come up with one - it's never a lawful situation, regardless. And no, this hasn't changed since I was in. I spent eight long years enlisted in the Marines in order to pay for college (and to be able to survive while attending college. I had a family at the time.)
Yet, I oft hear this repeated. I do not know why.
Let me put this to you straight. The President can not, really, just order the Marines to do things willy-nilly. Yes, he is the Commander in Chief. Yes, he's the boss. However, the Marines aren't even their own department - they're a department of the Navy, for starters. I know - it said it clearly on my paycheck. Because of the beating my body took, I'm also eligible for a fair-to-middling (about $1400/mo) stipend for disability. I do not accept that money, I have no need for it and do not wish to deprive others who are more entitled than I. So, I've never applied but I'm told I'm quite eligible. I'm also not positive but I believe *that* money would also come from the Department of the Navy.
No, no the Marines can't be ordered to go hang around and annoy Congress. Well, they probably could be given that order but it would be unlawful and would not be obeyed. There's some reference to it going back to deal with some Barbary pirates but, again, that's taken out of context. This is one of the strangest misconceptions that I've ever come across.
Finally, I could be wrong. I am not omniscient. If you've documentation that shows that I'm mistaken then I'd love to read it. I'm pretty sure you'll only find some opinions and some VERY wrong interpretations by conspiracy nuts. I can't imagine that very many Marines would even listen to such an order even if it WERE lawful - depending on the circumstances but that's a subject for another day and one I don't really feel inclined to discuss with you. (Nothing personal.)
I don't really like the series and haven't managed to make it through any of the new (old?) stuff - even though I bought them. I think one is still in the BluRay player back home - and has been for years. I'm not sure, actually.
But, I don't begrudge you your fun.
For a while, I had huge hair and a very scruffy face with lots of hair. I'd tell people I had "Chewy-chewbacinson's disease" and that it made me grow hair out of odd parts of my body and sometimes make me talk like "ooowwwerreerroooowwwwrraaarraawaaa."
I'm still not really a fan. I did, mostly, enjoy the first three.
You can turn it off - I often do unless someone's decided to mod bomb me and then I only turn it on just to piss 'em off. I'm not actually sure that is possible to reduce my karma below the rating of excellent - even with a concerted effort, as such a concerted effort has been tried.
You're going to make me defend Palin? I fucking hate you.
*sighs*
Palin *got* information from people which mixed personal and official business. She then told them that this was a private email and gave them the email address to conduct the official business at that address.
Son of a bitch, you're an asshole for making me do that.
He's right Logan. It's been ongoing for a while now. I told him how to work around it. When the old refresh system went away, new threads still get listed. They sometimes just link to the main page. If you refresh then they turn into the right links - usually. Sometimes I've had to refresh a second time. I can replicate this daily - multiple times per day. Why? I leave a tab open to Slashdot at all times. Sometimes, nearly every link will be that way until I refresh.
Unlike the rest, I will actually help you. Hit refresh - you may need to hit it twice. I've never had to hit it more than twice. They link will then show up and not be a link to just the damned main page. It has been a while that this has been going on. So far, that's worked. I can tell that it works because it no longer has the image in a brighter white (not gray-ish) but I use a modified theme for the site so I can't say what that will look like on your screen.
Dude... We (Micmacs) used to make women on the rag go sleep in the menstrual hut and they weren't necessarily wives so much as anyone could take a turn - though I think she had to technically "be willing."
Where the hell do you guys come up with this noble savage stuff. 'Cause, you know, I am actually not just a Micmac but I'm a tribal member and I've read almost every bit of history we can come up with. I've even spent a summer digging with the archaeologists to see if we can help uncover more history.
Yeah... We traded women for fucking dead animal carcasses to eat and survive at least one particularly cold winter. To be fair, we went and stole her back and murdered most of the Penobscots the following summer. We also stole a bunch of their women.
Hah! I scrolled down before replying. I'm a practicing, albeit secular, Buddhist. I am pretty sure that we don't oppress women but we did not used to let them participate nearly as much. I think that changed sometime in something like 200 AD. Don't quote me on that. They're not monks by the way. They're nuns. They're just as welcome to teach and do, well, whatever they want. I suppose the Dalai Lama could reincarnate as a woman. I suppose the Dalai Llama could be a woman too.;-)
Yeah but it sure makes it easy to point and say stuff like, "Those stupid, ignorant, Americans."
Another one... This one is a bit more complex. Look at the actual root causes for the military actions taken by the United States and figure out who it is that actually set those situations up. What, were we supposed to just let the abuses continue?
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Put me on your notification list for when you're done, if you don't mind. And I'm expecting you're aware of them - I'm suspecting that you're not using them. :D They actually aren't as bad as I'd expected. They can be hell to pay attention to while driving in traffic. I could probably text a novel while driving and have fewer distractions than I have when listening and driving. I've reached the point where I tend to wait until I'm on the highway or away from traffic before listening. The missus doesn't much care for them so she's got headphones but sometimes she listens politely.
As I said, I'm not so arrogant as to make a suggestion as to genre or narrator but I suspect you'll find some you like. If you're really wanting to feed your addiction AND you spend some time in a car (which I seem to recall you having mentioned in the past - which is why I brought it up) then it might be something to look into.
So you don't want to have a meaningful dialogue and just want to read what you wrote. That's okay but you should just be upfront and honest about it.
And, I politely disagree with your definition of what makes a newbie. The knowledge of other people doesn't matter. What matters, in my opinion, is the time in service.
Would you say that someone who's been a staffer for 20 years is a newbie - even though it's likely that nobody has heard of them? That seems disingenuous unless you're saying they're a newb to football or similar.
It's curious that your assertion is that I get over myself when it's not I who is unwilling to engage in meaningful, objective, and honest discourse. You're free to be you and you're free to levy any accusations you want but it's exceedingly difficult to respect someone who's spouting gibberish as if they, and they alone, are the dictator of definitions.
But no... It is *I* who should get over himself. *sighs* I doubt you've the introspection or self-awareness to see this and want to try anew so I'll skip offering you the chance to do so. If you ever do reach the point where you're able to be honest with yourself, give it a try. It can be a bit painful but the end results are often worth the pain and they may make you a better person.
Nope, as far as I know, if you have a negative modifier then it is not something you can disable in your settings. I have this on good authority - from a poor guy who'd made (I checked) one comment that got them mod bombed into hell. He's limited to something like 4 posts per day and they must be an hour apart.
I didn't believe him so I went through is posts and he really did make one comment - not even a bad comment but it was wrong. It seems some folks took offense and I learned something new.
Just because it stops at -1 where it shows? The -1 mods STILL impact their final kama score. In other words, he was moderated to -100 (or lower) from one comment even though the -1 was all that showed.
He'd made a comment about the TSA only being allowed to search certain baggage and that there were some things you could do in an airport that you can't actually do. You USED to be able to do those things. The bit about the TSA was wrong. He also said it in a way that came off as reading cocky - but I don't think it was, I'd read their earlier posts and really spent some time looking at it.
He well and truly got fucked by the system. He indicates that the notification system had him at at least 100 downvotes - even though it stops displaying them at -1.
I had no idea it was possible but there was proof. I went through a TON of his comments since and prior. He was fairly new, only a few comments prior.
I told him to burn the account and get a new one. I think they're the only one I've ever suggested do that. I have no idea if they did but I hope so. I mean, seriously, he was needlessly bombed. I don't know if the practice continues to this day but it's crazy. He posts at -1 by default, can not change it, and I'm going out on a limb to say that he surely didn't deserve it.
Yes, he was wrong. Yes, he was (seemingly) snooty about it. At the time, it was a very emotionally charged subject. I suspect you can recollect when that was an important and emotional subject for everyone here. But, I don't think he got treated fairly. I think he's the only one I feel sorry for - part of that is from reading his other comments. He's not really snooty, it's just that his writing style is easily interpreted as that. It looks like one person took offense and then the rest slammed on him. He didn't even have a lot of follow-up comments (maybe three or four) and that was the end of his account. He'd only had a few comments prior. He still used the account YEARS later. I didn't discover this person (or their history) until after the start of 2016. Yeah, he's been posting with that limited account and, according to him, exclusively with that limited account ever since.
I gotta respect that part of it.
Again, he was wrong. There's no doubt about it. Part of what he said had been right up until just a little while before the date of his post - as in six months prior he'd have been correct. He said that he got "more than 100 downvotes" (not verbatim) and has been that way since. I think that's unfair but suggested he just generate a new account. He was sort of hell bent on trying to get his account back to normal. If I moderated then I'd have moderated in a biased fashion just to try to help him out. I do not moderate, however. So, that didn't happen.
That's gotta suck.
Umm... Hmm... You might want to check that figure again. They've got hydrocodone in very low amounts - down as low as 2.5 mg and it's much weaker than oxycodone - the smallest of which that I've seen is 5, 7.5, and 10 mg. They'll get a low-level user a euphoric state but tolerance will be built up quickly. Codeine, in lo quantities, does the same - a 1 mg dose of hydromorphone will get you a decent rush if administered via IV - not so much orally but it will still get you the euphoric state.
It really varies with the person. It really varies with the tolerance. It really varies with history, weight, and chemicals - as well as the number of receptors that are built in - prior to their growth and whatnot.
So, I don't know? In other words, I think it'd be possible to become physically dependent on them but that people would be LESS likely to do so. That's discounting abuses - it's VERY likely that such low doses will not have the desired effect. That WILL lead to abuse. That WILL lead to surreptitious acquisitions. (Probably starting with friends and family and then working to street and, eventually, to harder things as those are often more readily available and that dosage will continue to climb.)
I don't know how many people will "try" to get addicted but you're probably right - there probably will be some. There are those with a genetic predisposition to it - they call that an addictive personality and those people are not often physically addicted (in case you're curious) but have underlying mental issues.
Absolutely. Something habit forming and even addictive does not need to be life crippling. I was a functional user for many, many years. I started using in the end of the 1960s. I stopped using opiates, pretty much entirely, just a few months ago. I stopped using ILLEGAL opiates about a year ago. (I'd been on Suboxone since then.)
I was/am very successful. I am well rewarded and have more money than I deserve. I can continue my drug use with absolutely zero chance of that use affecting my financial situation - I simply make more money by means of my investments than I can even possibly use - I could supply multiple addicts, indefinitely, with just the income from my investment-based income. In fact, I have. I used to keep as much as full 8 ounces of coke on hand (I don't mind coke, I don't seem to be able to get addicted. After a couple of days, I put it away and don't touch it again for a while. I have no idea but it might be because my preference is downers.) I used to order Fentanyl patches by the 5000 lot - yes, 5000. Fentanyl is 80 times more powerful than 100% pure heroin. It's the strongest opiate meant for human consumption that's available from a pharmacy. There's a slightly stronger version that is developed but it is for animal use - largely used for animals the size of elephants.
I found out they were cutting shitty h with Fentanyl and that's when I went and found me some Fent and had a good old time. (I was also smart(ish) in that I made sure to remember that you can put more in but you can't take it back out - I've never once ODed to the point where I needed intervention. - with all those years of use.)
I didn't use via IV until the mid-1980s. I was a snorter, sublingual, and eater. Even then, that didn't scale up until the 1990s - I had work to do. My tolerance got to the point where it became uneconomical to consume it in any other way - I wasn't always financially secure. My retirement seemed to tell my brain that it no longer had to work. As near as I can tell, my use didn't actually increase - it stayed largely the same. It's that something in my brain changed - something that I don't really understand. It's like it said, "Well, I no longer have to be functional. Cool." This also happened with alcohol. I drank longer than I used. I did, with a lot of illness, quit drinking over 3.5 years ago and have remained sober since - I have had as many as two beverages at one sitting since but never more and never frequently. I've probably done so less than a half-d
I can guarantee you that they put no such thought into it. Nope. You may well be giving a very good observation and, indeed, at first blush it appears you are. They, on the other hand, gave it no such consideration and simply went with what looked good, was affordable, was reliable, and was reasonably easy - as well as easy to put into footage that gave the implications they wanted.
I am not a graphics guy - not even remotely. So, thank you. Do you happen to have more information or, perhaps, a link that will put that stuff into laymen's terms? I don't want to make you work but I really do prefer the good Slashdot explanations more than I prefer the blasé stuff you get from Wikipedia or whatnot.
It's also sometimes effective on starters. *nods* A wooden dowel and a rubber mallet is a must in any real mechanics toolbox. :D
I'm suffering a brain fart. The piece that comes out and pushes into the flywheel to spin it up and start the car sometimes gets stuck and a good healthy whack is often enough to teach it a lesson. Stater? I forget the name and I'm too lazy to Google. While I am an automotive aficonado and I do work on my own cars a little bit, I do not always remember things well and I tend to actually pay people to do the work for me as I hate splitting open my fingers and getting grease lodged in my hand deeply enough that it's nearly impossible to entirely eradicate.
So you're advocating that more people break the law by further disseminating classified information. I'm starting to think you're an idiot.
About 15 years ago, they added the politics section. And, I guess, rightfully so as politics does have an impact on technology. So, I'm going to have to disagree and I'm not sure why you'd play the idiot game of "I'm sure this won't see the light of day." Are you the same 'tard that's been running around lately saying stuff like, "Oh, I'm sure this will get me moderated -1?" 'Cause, if so, you're an idiot.
You're an AC. You have no say. Your opinion is the lowest of values. We care not what you think and generally don't even care what you say. Hell, I'm about the only one who'll talk to an AC and that's just because I know all of you aren't functionally retarded. In fact, there's one (two, sort of) that I'm in regular communication with - who are very much not retarded. (Hi "AC" who's real name I'm not going to use.)
You can tell him, the one I speak of, by the way he calls me by my first name. In fact, when I first bumped into him I thought he might actually have been someone who used to work for my company but that's not true.
But the rest of you? Shit... I've seen more insightful posts on Yahoo Answers.
He does. As I mentioned above, there's an independent documentary with him in it from back when he was in a Romanian prison and not yet extradited. His story is pretty consistent. It's called "The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet." Watch it. Then comment.
The reality is, we know about her server (initially) because of his actions. Yup. We've kind of whitewashed that and we now claim it came to light via different means but the time line indicates otherwise.
He's in a documentary that's from before he was shipped here and while he was serving time in Romania. It's called something like, "The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet." It's worth watching and is easily found online at your favorite torrent site - it was free in a bundle thingy (I think) but I'm sure there are many ways to get it - there's probably streaming versions.
Umm... You're not only not a lawyer but you're not actually familiar with the judicial system - are you? I'm not sure that any of the things you stated are correct. As I read it for a third time, I'm pretty sure that none of what you said is correct - including the first sentence.
What prompted you to make your comment? What makes you think she can't be charged for violating an executive order, for instance? The next bit about statutes? Well, that's not even wrong - it's just gibberish. Finally, I have no idea what the hell you're trying to say at the end.
I've seen you post before and you're not normally retarded. Am I missing something? I mean that, you're literally normally sane and reasonably correct. WTF is this shit from you? It's gibberish - most of it's not even wrong and what is wrong is just so bizarre that I'm not sure how the hell you reached these conclusions.
So, I'm sitting here thinking that I must be missing something - you're not normally retarded. For lack of a better solution, I'm going to have to ask for some citations and, well, I think I'm going to need to see some precedent and court findings - those should be easy to find to support your claim(s). Trust me - I went and looked before typing this. I thought that I must be the one in error.
Just so you know, that bit about the Marines being the only branch of the service to blah blah blah and not needing things like Congressional approval - that's not actually correct. There's some strange misinterpretations going on out there based on "and other orders as the President directs." (I think that's verbatim.) However. No. That's not what that means. Not even remotely.
Now, the Marines might listen - I suppose. I really doubt it. We're sworn to uphold the Constitution and, believe it or not, we take our oath(s) seriously - as we do our traditions. I'm trying to think of a realistic situation in which that might happen and I just can't come up with one - it's never a lawful situation, regardless. And no, this hasn't changed since I was in. I spent eight long years enlisted in the Marines in order to pay for college (and to be able to survive while attending college. I had a family at the time.)
Yet, I oft hear this repeated. I do not know why.
Let me put this to you straight. The President can not, really, just order the Marines to do things willy-nilly. Yes, he is the Commander in Chief. Yes, he's the boss. However, the Marines aren't even their own department - they're a department of the Navy, for starters. I know - it said it clearly on my paycheck. Because of the beating my body took, I'm also eligible for a fair-to-middling (about $1400/mo) stipend for disability. I do not accept that money, I have no need for it and do not wish to deprive others who are more entitled than I. So, I've never applied but I'm told I'm quite eligible. I'm also not positive but I believe *that* money would also come from the Department of the Navy.
No, no the Marines can't be ordered to go hang around and annoy Congress. Well, they probably could be given that order but it would be unlawful and would not be obeyed. There's some reference to it going back to deal with some Barbary pirates but, again, that's taken out of context. This is one of the strangest misconceptions that I've ever come across.
Finally, I could be wrong. I am not omniscient. If you've documentation that shows that I'm mistaken then I'd love to read it. I'm pretty sure you'll only find some opinions and some VERY wrong interpretations by conspiracy nuts. I can't imagine that very many Marines would even listen to such an order even if it WERE lawful - depending on the circumstances but that's a subject for another day and one I don't really feel inclined to discuss with you. (Nothing personal.)
I don't really like the series and haven't managed to make it through any of the new (old?) stuff - even though I bought them. I think one is still in the BluRay player back home - and has been for years. I'm not sure, actually.
But, I don't begrudge you your fun.
For a while, I had huge hair and a very scruffy face with lots of hair. I'd tell people I had "Chewy-chewbacinson's disease" and that it made me grow hair out of odd parts of my body and sometimes make me talk like "ooowwwerreerroooowwwwrraaarraawaaa."
I'm still not really a fan. I did, mostly, enjoy the first three.
Let's test that...
- Freedom of speech trumps your right to feel comfortable
I just picked one because you said "any" - and you have the benefit of having said it would be so.
You can turn it off - I often do unless someone's decided to mod bomb me and then I only turn it on just to piss 'em off. I'm not actually sure that is possible to reduce my karma below the rating of excellent - even with a concerted effort, as such a concerted effort has been tried.
You're going to make me defend Palin? I fucking hate you.
*sighs*
Palin *got* information from people which mixed personal and official business. She then told them that this was a private email and gave them the email address to conduct the official business at that address.
Son of a bitch, you're an asshole for making me do that.
He's right Logan. It's been ongoing for a while now. I told him how to work around it. When the old refresh system went away, new threads still get listed. They sometimes just link to the main page. If you refresh then they turn into the right links - usually. Sometimes I've had to refresh a second time. I can replicate this daily - multiple times per day. Why? I leave a tab open to Slashdot at all times. Sometimes, nearly every link will be that way until I refresh.
Unlike the rest, I will actually help you. Hit refresh - you may need to hit it twice. I've never had to hit it more than twice. They link will then show up and not be a link to just the damned main page. It has been a while that this has been going on. So far, that's worked. I can tell that it works because it no longer has the image in a brighter white (not gray-ish) but I use a modified theme for the site so I can't say what that will look like on your screen.
Dude... We (Micmacs) used to make women on the rag go sleep in the menstrual hut and they weren't necessarily wives so much as anyone could take a turn - though I think she had to technically "be willing."
Where the hell do you guys come up with this noble savage stuff. 'Cause, you know, I am actually not just a Micmac but I'm a tribal member and I've read almost every bit of history we can come up with. I've even spent a summer digging with the archaeologists to see if we can help uncover more history.
Yeah... We traded women for fucking dead animal carcasses to eat and survive at least one particularly cold winter. To be fair, we went and stole her back and murdered most of the Penobscots the following summer. We also stole a bunch of their women.
Hah! I scrolled down before replying. I'm a practicing, albeit secular, Buddhist. I am pretty sure that we don't oppress women but we did not used to let them participate nearly as much. I think that changed sometime in something like 200 AD. Don't quote me on that. They're not monks by the way. They're nuns. They're just as welcome to teach and do, well, whatever they want. I suppose the Dalai Lama could reincarnate as a woman. I suppose the Dalai Llama could be a woman too. ;-)
Yeah but it sure makes it easy to point and say stuff like, "Those stupid, ignorant, Americans."
Another one... This one is a bit more complex. Look at the actual root causes for the military actions taken by the United States and figure out who it is that actually set those situations up. What, were we supposed to just let the abuses continue?
> Or are you saying that we are allowed to discriminate now?
That's a tough question but I'm going to answer it like this:
From what I've witnessed it looks like not we but they are allowed to discriminate.
Way back then, I was a poor boy (I need no sympathy) and did not own that album. :(
Do we celebrate that we're not alone or do were sulk before we're not unique and individual snowflakes? :/