It's not precedent. This is not the first time. People have used the guise of religion for all sorts of things. There are officially recognized religions. This is not one of them. This is hardly precedent - I was hearing similar stories when I was a wee lad. I imagine that they go back even further.
I guess they could consider it a hate crime if they were spitting at them because of their race? I'd argue that the spitting, regardless of the reason, is wrong. I'd be right pissed off if a country were to try to fine me for saying racist remarks. Now, of course, I don't actually say racist remarks but I'd certainly think about saying some just to piss off that particular country.
Even hateful speech should be a right that can't be infringed on. I say this as someone's who's absolutely a minority. I'm a bit over 1/2 Amerindian and the rest is a mix of African and European. I look Asian and speak Spanish almost fluently. It really, really screws with people's heads. I'm pretty sure that I'm about as minority as they come. If someone wants to be a racist idiot and say racist things then I think they should be allowed to do so without fear of government intervention.
I took a quick look at Google and I'm not seeing anyone getting fined for disparaging remarks. I could be using the wrong terms.
She is one of my least favorite politicians. Then again, I'm hard pressed to think of a single politician that's currently in office that I like - other than Sanders. I liked Ron Paul quite a bit.
I don't think we've yet reached the stage where violence is the only option left to us. I prefer to reserve violence for when there are no other choices. It's best that it not become too common a tool. I am not advocating violence. When the time comes, if the time comes, I'll advocate violence and be there with you. I'll also be *really* well equipped. I did serve as a Marine for 8 years, that's how I paid for school, and I do have a rather extensive (obscene numbers, to some) collection of firearms.
We've not yet reached the point where I feel violence is the solution. Violence is the last solution. What are those boxes again? Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo? I am pretty sure that we're supposed to go in order. It's kind of like, "rape, murder, pillage, burn." Sure, you can change the order around but that just makes you a freak.
I have never been called a pinko before. One of these days, I'll get down to re-writing some of my views. Many people seem to think I'm an ultraconservative.
At any rate, I've written them out many times before. I should redo all of it. I need to work on my other site at some point too - which I'll avoid linking to here. This is not my campaign platform, this is Slashdot. Keeping the two separate is kind of important to me but I'll have some overlap, of course. Some of what I learn here affects my political views, some of what I experience there will impact how I present things. Surely...
So, I'm not really sure what you're going for. I looked at the dictionary definition of pinko and it's someone with moderate leftist views. Someone not quite red.
That means teaching a whole lot of people to compile. That's workable. If we could all put it in the same spot in the code then maybe it could just be a switch for those who build with apt. Something like apt-get source --compile -iE 7zip or the likes.
Thanks. And I'm way too prolific and verbose for anyone to actually read it all.;-) But, thanks and I appreciate the encouragement. The "scary" thing is that I'm quite likely to win. Our idiot has run unopposed for years.
Actually, he's a nice guy. He's a Republican but I don't hold that against him. If I take his place then I'll just be "our idiot." But, it's a small State and it might be somewhere that something good can come from just a few people working hard enough. Maine's one of those places where a single person can live pretty comfortably (albeit a bit frugally) for $15,000 a year. That means buying a new $1000 beater car every couple of years - in the spring we have giant frost heaves. If you're unfamiliar with that, look at Google and do the image search.
You're familiar with the caricature of what a Libertarian is. Most of us aren't Ayn Rand fans, I certainly don't believe in mandatory collectives, and most of know government is a necessary evil. At some point, I'll write out my position - I've done it many times. Next time, I'll make sure to bring it to your attention. Read the link the guy gave you below, just the first four paragraphs. (I think they linked to the Libertarian article.)
I actually prefer Ubuntu. Well, no... I do not prefer Ubuntu, not at all. Ubuntu is shitty. I prefer Lubuntu which is just Ubuntu with LXDE and some different defaults. I like LXDE. I like the simplicity and I can make it look good enough for me. In fact, I think it's quite attractive. I even built my own disappearing dock and have it all customized.
And now they're switching it to LXQt... *sighs*
Fortunately, I'm smart enough to be able to keep my LXDE going on my own. I'll try LXQt, I'll try anything once. But, I've tried every single distro (pretty much) at DistroWatch. I've tried all the ones that the FSF recommends. I've tried all the rare and unusual ones - often in a VM but sometimes on bare metal. I like the access to the Ubuntu ecosystem.
Sure, I still tend to build stuff and I even build with apt sometimes. Mostly, I just like that it works and it works well. If I break something, I've got backups or I can just preserve ~/ and import my PPAs with Aptik. I'm literally up and running again in just a few minutes, from bare metal, though it is still technically installing during that time.
I dunno? It makes me happy. So long as you're using the OS that suits your needs best, that's all that matters, no? For me, and after a lot of discovery, that's Lubuntu. For now... That may change, you never know. Hell, I just moved two browsers up several spots so it's not like I'm a zealot about the software. I just like what works for me and lets me get shit done.
Wait, what? They're fining you for disparaging remarks about someone's race?
Look, I hate racism and I hate racists but I'll be damned if I'd sit idly by while the government fines people for speech that incites nothing. What, exactly, are we talking about here? Google is not turning up any examples. I've been busy for a couple of weeks so I might have missed something.
I'm part black and I don't even get pissed when someone says, "Nigger." I have relatives who use the term on a regular basis - but get mad if a white person says it. I'm only about 1/8 black or something but, still. I don't care if someone wants to spout racist gibberish at the top of their lungs. It lets me know who to not bother trying to talk to. I'm mostly Micmac and the "Injun Joe" jokes don't bother me one bit.
They're words people. More often than not, they say more about the person speaking them than they do about the people they're referencing.
They're seriously fining people for saying what, specifically?
Bigoted doesn't mean racist, does it? Muslim is not a race. Christian is not a race. Buddhist is not a race. Jew, well that might be a race by some folks interpretations. So, we'll skip them. But it's not racist - I'm pretty sure? Since when is there a Muslim race? If there's a Muslim race, then how do the ladies run in it with their heads all covered up? They won't see anything and will smash into all sorts of stuff. It might be fun to watch but that'd make them racers and still not racists.
I will be on the Maine State ballot for Senate, district 17, this fall. I'm actually a classic Libertarian or, perhaps, a Socialist Libertarian. If I were in Europe, you'd call me a Socialist Democrat - more likely than not. Though, I've got all the signatures and the paperwork is turned in (I had all that done before I even went on my winter vacation), I am kind of doubting my desire to hold office.
The reasons are long and complex. I don't want the job to begin with. I've neither the need for money nor the need for the infamy. I don't need the prying and, while I don't mind being honest, there are some things I just don't feel like having to explain because they occupy more than 140 characters or a bumper sticker. I still have time to remove my name, prior to the ballot printings, and I'm not entirely sure what I want to do.
A long time ago, I was going to be the next Jim Morrison. We had a band, we even had a demo tape, and we did a bunch of concerts down the East Coast. Then, we went to the West Coast. The following year, I was in the Marines. I learned something back then. The people you want to be able to listen, can't. Had the crowd been a little less noisy and listened to the music then maybe we would have ended up with a record deal. Instead, the bars were loud and fights were frequent and the people you wanted to be able to hear, couldn't.
I wonder if I'm approaching that same sort of thing with politics. I don't want the job. I never wanted the job. I've just been asked to run many, many times and I finally agreed that "I'd consider it" if they could get enough signatures. It's a rather small district, up in North Western, Maine. I have better ways to waste my time - even if it means posting on Slashdot, then trying to change the juggernaut that is humanity. I am not that powerful and, as I said, the ones I want to hear - can't.
So, I don't know... The missus and I discuss it nearly every day. I'm headed back to Maine in just a few more weeks. I'll miss my time in the Gulf but I'm missing Maine even more. I think the State ought to be a fair, just, balanced, and compassionate organization that is there for the benefit and not for the detriment. That's why I opted to run as a Senator.
By the way, the band was horrible. Absolutely horrific and had no business being on stage. Separately, we weren't bad. Together, we kind of sucked. Though, once in a while, if the declination of the moon was right and the level of intoxication was just so - you could feel the music, and I do not mean the vibrations of the air via sound waves. All-in-all, I'm much happier that my life turned out the way it has.
But, I fear the same problem will be there with politics. It's like the Law of Diminishing Returns. It's everywhere. Those you want to be able to listen, can't. Not much of what I have to say fits in a bunch of check-marks, bumper stickers, or in 140 characters or less. I learned that at a very young age. I don't have a middle name. I have four names, no hyphen in the middle, and thus I have no middle name but I do have two middle names. When you fill those forms out with your handy dandy #2 pencil, there's just no room on there for me. They have one slot for a middle initial and I don't have one - I have two. It was then that I realized that the check-boxes of life just don't seem to fit. Funny how it all turns out in the end.
But, you can now say you've heard a politician (even if just an aspiring politician - who may decide to not run) say such things. I don't think most people want to hear it. It means that they've got to be accountable. It means that they're responsible. It means that they need to take action, accept risks, and live with the consequences of those choices. I'm not sure that I don't blame them. Life's easy when you're a coward.
Oh, I've already listed the best way that I can think of to get their attention and it's a bit long to write it out again. However, it's easy enough to do. What we need, in order to do it, is solidarity. That's what we, the citizens, lack. We're too busy fighting over who is what color, who is getting what for privilege, who has what politics, who has sex with who, who believes in this, and who believes in that. We call each other hillbillies, rednecks, fagots, and thugs. We berate someone for wearing a Confederate Flag or for wearing a Rainbow Flag. We're rooting for Trump and Clinton.
In other words, they've happily sat back and watched us squabble over the scraps while they continue eating their 12 course meal at the adult table. What we lack is the ability to stop pissing and moaning about the differences between us. What we lack is the motivation to pay attention to the many things we all have in common. We have no solidarity.
We have no unity (unless we have Ubuntu). We argue over operating systems, programming languages, politically correct pronouns, text editors, who shot first, grammar, and more. We hate anyone who has more than us and are sure they stole it, else they wouldn't have it. Either way, they don't deserve it. The people below us, financially, you either view them as incompetent and needing to be carried or needing to be left behind.
You don't see a human when you read my posts. You see an idea, you see a picture, you see a caricature. You either hate it or you like it but you don't bother to think about the things you and I have in common. You want to be right. You want to win, win what? You want to win the internet points? You want the last word? You want to be the King Shit on Turd Island? Well, that's what you've got.
And it might not even be your fault. You might be just peachy and perfect and willing to sacrifice for the greater good. That's quite possible but, really, if you are then you're no in the majority. The majority wants more and mine. The majority wants control and only views things in their own binary fashion. The majority isn't concerned about your problems because your problems aren't their problems. They don't even notice the disconnect when they finally have their problems and not a hand is raised to help them.
Then, accountability? We can not have that. Make a post suggesting someone have some personal accountability. Suggest that people be responsible. Note the remarks you get - just here, on this site, a site full of some of the smartest people on the 'net. You don't get solidarity without accountability. You don't get accountability without compassion. You don't get compassion without unity (unless you install it with apt-get).
No, we need solidarity. If you can tell me how to get solidarity, I will tell you how to rule the world.
Does this surprise anyone, anyone at all? Is anyone gasping because they're shocked that such would be proposed? Anyone? Anyone?
No... Me either...
*sighs* I tell you what, it's seriously reaching the point where we the people need to remind the government who is in charge. No, I am not advocating violence. Yes, I am advocating forcing them to listen.
However, on the subject of violence... The government should fear the citizens, not the other way around. Fear, having a meaning akin to respect as well as what one might normally define it as.
True though I was stating that they have the power, ceded in the constitution, to create a military. What's debatable is should it be a standing army or not. I do not believe that's actually enumerated.
As for the welfare thing? That's been trampled on as bad as the bullshit about regulating trade between the States. What one was it, the 9th? Was that the one that stated all powers not granted were reserved for the State or the Individual? I seem to think so. (My memory is fuzzy and it's been a LONG day - two days, actually.)
I think it was Bush who said that it was just a piece of paper. Obama's continued that trend. However, they weren't the first. I don't know who was in power when they did the wheat crop thing and the guy got into trouble for growing and not buying his own wheat. I'm also way too lazy to look it up.
I'm not positive but I think that's kind of where things started to change. That or, if it came sooner, the war against the South. I hate to say it but I'm pretty sure the States should have been allowed to form their own union and break away from this one. Which ever one of those came first was probably where things really started to go downhill.
Before you get some silly notions (which you're probably NOT prone to do - but just in case) I should mention that I'm quite specifically not white. I'm about 5/8 Amerindian and the rest is sort of divided almost evenly between African and European blood. I've shared the history of the black part of me before, actually. My family was on the wrong side of the revolution and King George had promised all the "Negroes," who fought for him, freedom. They actually took three ships and ran a blockade and we went to Haiti. We didn't stay there long. Within a couple of years we were brought to Nova Scotia and told to fuck the natives. We did. So, I'm Micmac and Black and some White in there too.
I say that so that you don't think I'm saying the South should have been allowed to go free because I'm a racist prick. I'm not.
But the whole welfare clause is very vague. I'm not really sure how a standing army counts. But a military (which is a militia) is well and truly within their realm of regulation. Something about secure the defense... I'd agree that the *current* military is probably not actually what the founders intended. I don't expect they wanted us to be the World's Police.
I believe I've seen more than one documentary that affirmatively stated that the cause was known. I don't remember they said it was a pulsar or a binary system or what. I seem to recall them stating, affirmatively, that it was due to something spinning. Assuming this is the famous WOW signal where they wrote WOW on the printed paper. There's a host of documentaries on the subject or that cover it.
I'm damned near certain that I've been told that they *knew* what the reason was. I took them at face value, it not being something I'm really all that interested in, and never looked into it further. I doubt that I'd have gleaned more than anyone else if I had looked into it. I'd have said it was probably a big alien kid playing with one of those things you spin and it has a fan like thing on it. Between the fan and the handle are an abrasive surface and flint so that it sparks. The wheel's usually got cut-outs and colored thing plastic windows so you get multiple colored sparks flashing really quickly and I'm sure they're giving off some sort of signal - albeit small, in the electro magnetic field.
Which is probably why they didn't ask me and is probably why I'm not an expert in the field. I'm still disappointed that I've been told it was a solved issue if it isn't, in fact, a solved issue at all. It's already hard enough, they don't need to make it more confusing.
If we go by quantity alone, the US Government has lost more of my data than any other entity - as far as I am aware. For better or worse, my data is all over the place. I've had countless notices. I probably have a lifetime's worth of free credit monitoring which really doesn't do me a damned bit of good. Instead, I have the major credit bureaus set the flag to, "Do not issue credit." I think it was something like $10 to do that? I'm not really sure - it probably ought to be free.
If I did want credit (sometimes a card is handy) then I have to call and make a one-time request for them to remove the flag and they only remove it for one specific creditor. An oddity is that the one specific creditor is not actually always the name of the lending institution. I'm not sure why that is. For example, it's not "Franklin/Somerset Federal Credit Union" if I want to get credit from them. They do their checks under a name of a larger entity which is sort of like a union of credit unions.
I thought it was broken into by a guy from Romania, he's either here in the US now or he's soon to be on the way here. There's a blurb about him in a short(ish) documentary called "Most Dangerous Town on the Internet." He's some Romanian dude and he broke into that and a few other things.
At least I'm pretty sure that's how the story goes and is how we initially found out about Mrs. Clinton's rogue email server. There was just an article a week or two ago (here on Slashdot) that indicated he was on his way to the United States, he's being/has been extradited to face charges on US soil for the crimes committed on US soil.
In the documentary, he laments being sentenced to five years. I can only imagine that he's going to be a whole lot more unhappy after he gets a federal sentence that is 4 to 10 times as long in a real federal penitentiary.
Yeah, expecting accountability and not blind button pushing is certainly inhumane. Expecting people to look before they leap is certainly inhumane. Expecting people to know what a button does prior to pushing it is expecting responsibility. We can't have that, now can we?
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It's not precedent. This is not the first time. People have used the guise of religion for all sorts of things. There are officially recognized religions. This is not one of them. This is hardly precedent - I was hearing similar stories when I was a wee lad. I imagine that they go back even further.
You look a little silly with that hook dangling out of your mouth and piercing your lip. ;-) Otherwise, good show ol' chap, jolly good show.
I guess they could consider it a hate crime if they were spitting at them because of their race? I'd argue that the spitting, regardless of the reason, is wrong. I'd be right pissed off if a country were to try to fine me for saying racist remarks. Now, of course, I don't actually say racist remarks but I'd certainly think about saying some just to piss off that particular country.
Even hateful speech should be a right that can't be infringed on. I say this as someone's who's absolutely a minority. I'm a bit over 1/2 Amerindian and the rest is a mix of African and European. I look Asian and speak Spanish almost fluently. It really, really screws with people's heads. I'm pretty sure that I'm about as minority as they come. If someone wants to be a racist idiot and say racist things then I think they should be allowed to do so without fear of government intervention.
I took a quick look at Google and I'm not seeing anyone getting fined for disparaging remarks. I could be using the wrong terms.
How would that, keeping them in check, benefit Google?
I run a number of instances headless and use SSH to access them. Even there, I still like the Ubuntu ecosystem. It's damned handy.
Spitting isn't calling someone names. Spitting isn't a "disparaging remark."
Here's the Slashdot article:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
The documentary is on YouTube.
She is one of my least favorite politicians. Then again, I'm hard pressed to think of a single politician that's currently in office that I like - other than Sanders. I liked Ron Paul quite a bit.
I don't think we've yet reached the stage where violence is the only option left to us. I prefer to reserve violence for when there are no other choices. It's best that it not become too common a tool. I am not advocating violence. When the time comes, if the time comes, I'll advocate violence and be there with you. I'll also be *really* well equipped. I did serve as a Marine for 8 years, that's how I paid for school, and I do have a rather extensive (obscene numbers, to some) collection of firearms.
We've not yet reached the point where I feel violence is the solution. Violence is the last solution. What are those boxes again? Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo? I am pretty sure that we're supposed to go in order. It's kind of like, "rape, murder, pillage, burn." Sure, you can change the order around but that just makes you a freak.
I have never been called a pinko before. One of these days, I'll get down to re-writing some of my views. Many people seem to think I'm an ultraconservative.
At any rate, I've written them out many times before. I should redo all of it. I need to work on my other site at some point too - which I'll avoid linking to here. This is not my campaign platform, this is Slashdot. Keeping the two separate is kind of important to me but I'll have some overlap, of course. Some of what I learn here affects my political views, some of what I experience there will impact how I present things. Surely...
So, I'm not really sure what you're going for. I looked at the dictionary definition of pinko and it's someone with moderate leftist views. Someone not quite red.
That means teaching a whole lot of people to compile. That's workable. If we could all put it in the same spot in the code then maybe it could just be a switch for those who build with apt. Something like apt-get source --compile -iE 7zip or the likes.
Thanks. I hate when they do that. I really do.
They need 10.
They want 15.
They ask for 50.
They "settle" for 20.
Thanks. And I'm way too prolific and verbose for anyone to actually read it all. ;-) But, thanks and I appreciate the encouragement. The "scary" thing is that I'm quite likely to win. Our idiot has run unopposed for years.
Actually, he's a nice guy. He's a Republican but I don't hold that against him. If I take his place then I'll just be "our idiot." But, it's a small State and it might be somewhere that something good can come from just a few people working hard enough. Maine's one of those places where a single person can live pretty comfortably (albeit a bit frugally) for $15,000 a year. That means buying a new $1000 beater car every couple of years - in the spring we have giant frost heaves. If you're unfamiliar with that, look at Google and do the image search.
You're familiar with the caricature of what a Libertarian is. Most of us aren't Ayn Rand fans, I certainly don't believe in mandatory collectives, and most of know government is a necessary evil. At some point, I'll write out my position - I've done it many times. Next time, I'll make sure to bring it to your attention. Read the link the guy gave you below, just the first four paragraphs. (I think they linked to the Libertarian article.)
I actually prefer Ubuntu. Well, no... I do not prefer Ubuntu, not at all. Ubuntu is shitty. I prefer Lubuntu which is just Ubuntu with LXDE and some different defaults. I like LXDE. I like the simplicity and I can make it look good enough for me. In fact, I think it's quite attractive. I even built my own disappearing dock and have it all customized.
And now they're switching it to LXQt... *sighs*
Fortunately, I'm smart enough to be able to keep my LXDE going on my own. I'll try LXQt, I'll try anything once. But, I've tried every single distro (pretty much) at DistroWatch. I've tried all the ones that the FSF recommends. I've tried all the rare and unusual ones - often in a VM but sometimes on bare metal. I like the access to the Ubuntu ecosystem.
Sure, I still tend to build stuff and I even build with apt sometimes. Mostly, I just like that it works and it works well. If I break something, I've got backups or I can just preserve ~/ and import my PPAs with Aptik. I'm literally up and running again in just a few minutes, from bare metal, though it is still technically installing during that time.
I dunno? It makes me happy. So long as you're using the OS that suits your needs best, that's all that matters, no? For me, and after a lot of discovery, that's Lubuntu. For now... That may change, you never know. Hell, I just moved two browsers up several spots so it's not like I'm a zealot about the software. I just like what works for me and lets me get shit done.
Wait, what? They're fining you for disparaging remarks about someone's race?
Look, I hate racism and I hate racists but I'll be damned if I'd sit idly by while the government fines people for speech that incites nothing. What, exactly, are we talking about here? Google is not turning up any examples. I've been busy for a couple of weeks so I might have missed something.
I'm part black and I don't even get pissed when someone says, "Nigger." I have relatives who use the term on a regular basis - but get mad if a white person says it. I'm only about 1/8 black or something but, still. I don't care if someone wants to spout racist gibberish at the top of their lungs. It lets me know who to not bother trying to talk to. I'm mostly Micmac and the "Injun Joe" jokes don't bother me one bit.
They're words people. More often than not, they say more about the person speaking them than they do about the people they're referencing.
They're seriously fining people for saying what, specifically?
Bigoted doesn't mean racist, does it? Muslim is not a race. Christian is not a race. Buddhist is not a race. Jew, well that might be a race by some folks interpretations. So, we'll skip them. But it's not racist - I'm pretty sure? Since when is there a Muslim race? If there's a Muslim race, then how do the ladies run in it with their heads all covered up? They won't see anything and will smash into all sorts of stuff. It might be fun to watch but that'd make them racers and still not racists.
I will be on the Maine State ballot for Senate, district 17, this fall. I'm actually a classic Libertarian or, perhaps, a Socialist Libertarian. If I were in Europe, you'd call me a Socialist Democrat - more likely than not. Though, I've got all the signatures and the paperwork is turned in (I had all that done before I even went on my winter vacation), I am kind of doubting my desire to hold office.
The reasons are long and complex. I don't want the job to begin with. I've neither the need for money nor the need for the infamy. I don't need the prying and, while I don't mind being honest, there are some things I just don't feel like having to explain because they occupy more than 140 characters or a bumper sticker. I still have time to remove my name, prior to the ballot printings, and I'm not entirely sure what I want to do.
A long time ago, I was going to be the next Jim Morrison. We had a band, we even had a demo tape, and we did a bunch of concerts down the East Coast. Then, we went to the West Coast. The following year, I was in the Marines. I learned something back then. The people you want to be able to listen, can't. Had the crowd been a little less noisy and listened to the music then maybe we would have ended up with a record deal. Instead, the bars were loud and fights were frequent and the people you wanted to be able to hear, couldn't.
I wonder if I'm approaching that same sort of thing with politics. I don't want the job. I never wanted the job. I've just been asked to run many, many times and I finally agreed that "I'd consider it" if they could get enough signatures. It's a rather small district, up in North Western, Maine. I have better ways to waste my time - even if it means posting on Slashdot, then trying to change the juggernaut that is humanity. I am not that powerful and, as I said, the ones I want to hear - can't.
So, I don't know... The missus and I discuss it nearly every day. I'm headed back to Maine in just a few more weeks. I'll miss my time in the Gulf but I'm missing Maine even more. I think the State ought to be a fair, just, balanced, and compassionate organization that is there for the benefit and not for the detriment. That's why I opted to run as a Senator.
By the way, the band was horrible. Absolutely horrific and had no business being on stage. Separately, we weren't bad. Together, we kind of sucked. Though, once in a while, if the declination of the moon was right and the level of intoxication was just so - you could feel the music, and I do not mean the vibrations of the air via sound waves. All-in-all, I'm much happier that my life turned out the way it has.
But, I fear the same problem will be there with politics. It's like the Law of Diminishing Returns. It's everywhere. Those you want to be able to listen, can't. Not much of what I have to say fits in a bunch of check-marks, bumper stickers, or in 140 characters or less. I learned that at a very young age. I don't have a middle name. I have four names, no hyphen in the middle, and thus I have no middle name but I do have two middle names. When you fill those forms out with your handy dandy #2 pencil, there's just no room on there for me. They have one slot for a middle initial and I don't have one - I have two. It was then that I realized that the check-boxes of life just don't seem to fit. Funny how it all turns out in the end.
But, you can now say you've heard a politician (even if just an aspiring politician - who may decide to not run) say such things. I don't think most people want to hear it. It means that they've got to be accountable. It means that they're responsible. It means that they need to take action, accept risks, and live with the consequences of those choices. I'm not sure that I don't blame them. Life's easy when you're a coward.
Oh, I've already listed the best way that I can think of to get their attention and it's a bit long to write it out again. However, it's easy enough to do. What we need, in order to do it, is solidarity. That's what we, the citizens, lack. We're too busy fighting over who is what color, who is getting what for privilege, who has what politics, who has sex with who, who believes in this, and who believes in that. We call each other hillbillies, rednecks, fagots, and thugs. We berate someone for wearing a Confederate Flag or for wearing a Rainbow Flag. We're rooting for Trump and Clinton.
In other words, they've happily sat back and watched us squabble over the scraps while they continue eating their 12 course meal at the adult table. What we lack is the ability to stop pissing and moaning about the differences between us. What we lack is the motivation to pay attention to the many things we all have in common. We have no solidarity.
We have no unity (unless we have Ubuntu). We argue over operating systems, programming languages, politically correct pronouns, text editors, who shot first, grammar, and more. We hate anyone who has more than us and are sure they stole it, else they wouldn't have it. Either way, they don't deserve it. The people below us, financially, you either view them as incompetent and needing to be carried or needing to be left behind.
You don't see a human when you read my posts. You see an idea, you see a picture, you see a caricature. You either hate it or you like it but you don't bother to think about the things you and I have in common. You want to be right. You want to win, win what? You want to win the internet points? You want the last word? You want to be the King Shit on Turd Island? Well, that's what you've got.
And it might not even be your fault. You might be just peachy and perfect and willing to sacrifice for the greater good. That's quite possible but, really, if you are then you're no in the majority. The majority wants more and mine. The majority wants control and only views things in their own binary fashion. The majority isn't concerned about your problems because your problems aren't their problems. They don't even notice the disconnect when they finally have their problems and not a hand is raised to help them.
Then, accountability? We can not have that. Make a post suggesting someone have some personal accountability. Suggest that people be responsible. Note the remarks you get - just here, on this site, a site full of some of the smartest people on the 'net. You don't get solidarity without accountability. You don't get accountability without compassion. You don't get compassion without unity (unless you install it with apt-get).
No, we need solidarity. If you can tell me how to get solidarity, I will tell you how to rule the world.
I guess the question is this:
Does this surprise anyone, anyone at all? Is anyone gasping because they're shocked that such would be proposed? Anyone? Anyone?
No... Me either...
*sighs* I tell you what, it's seriously reaching the point where we the people need to remind the government who is in charge. No, I am not advocating violence. Yes, I am advocating forcing them to listen.
However, on the subject of violence... The government should fear the citizens, not the other way around. Fear, having a meaning akin to respect as well as what one might normally define it as.
See definition 4 here:
http://www.thefreedictionary.c...
Of course, if need be, the other definitions work.
True though I was stating that they have the power, ceded in the constitution, to create a military. What's debatable is should it be a standing army or not. I do not believe that's actually enumerated.
As for the welfare thing? That's been trampled on as bad as the bullshit about regulating trade between the States. What one was it, the 9th? Was that the one that stated all powers not granted were reserved for the State or the Individual? I seem to think so. (My memory is fuzzy and it's been a LONG day - two days, actually.)
I think it was Bush who said that it was just a piece of paper. Obama's continued that trend. However, they weren't the first. I don't know who was in power when they did the wheat crop thing and the guy got into trouble for growing and not buying his own wheat. I'm also way too lazy to look it up.
I'm not positive but I think that's kind of where things started to change. That or, if it came sooner, the war against the South. I hate to say it but I'm pretty sure the States should have been allowed to form their own union and break away from this one. Which ever one of those came first was probably where things really started to go downhill.
Before you get some silly notions (which you're probably NOT prone to do - but just in case) I should mention that I'm quite specifically not white. I'm about 5/8 Amerindian and the rest is sort of divided almost evenly between African and European blood. I've shared the history of the black part of me before, actually. My family was on the wrong side of the revolution and King George had promised all the "Negroes," who fought for him, freedom. They actually took three ships and ran a blockade and we went to Haiti. We didn't stay there long. Within a couple of years we were brought to Nova Scotia and told to fuck the natives. We did. So, I'm Micmac and Black and some White in there too.
I say that so that you don't think I'm saying the South should have been allowed to go free because I'm a racist prick. I'm not.
But the whole welfare clause is very vague. I'm not really sure how a standing army counts. But a military (which is a militia) is well and truly within their realm of regulation. Something about secure the defense... I'd agree that the *current* military is probably not actually what the founders intended. I don't expect they wanted us to be the World's Police.
Make sense? Sorry if muddled - I'm exhausted.
I believe I've seen more than one documentary that affirmatively stated that the cause was known. I don't remember they said it was a pulsar or a binary system or what. I seem to recall them stating, affirmatively, that it was due to something spinning. Assuming this is the famous WOW signal where they wrote WOW on the printed paper. There's a host of documentaries on the subject or that cover it.
I'm damned near certain that I've been told that they *knew* what the reason was. I took them at face value, it not being something I'm really all that interested in, and never looked into it further. I doubt that I'd have gleaned more than anyone else if I had looked into it. I'd have said it was probably a big alien kid playing with one of those things you spin and it has a fan like thing on it. Between the fan and the handle are an abrasive surface and flint so that it sparks. The wheel's usually got cut-outs and colored thing plastic windows so you get multiple colored sparks flashing really quickly and I'm sure they're giving off some sort of signal - albeit small, in the electro magnetic field.
Which is probably why they didn't ask me and is probably why I'm not an expert in the field. I'm still disappointed that I've been told it was a solved issue if it isn't, in fact, a solved issue at all. It's already hard enough, they don't need to make it more confusing.
If we go by quantity alone, the US Government has lost more of my data than any other entity - as far as I am aware. For better or worse, my data is all over the place. I've had countless notices. I probably have a lifetime's worth of free credit monitoring which really doesn't do me a damned bit of good. Instead, I have the major credit bureaus set the flag to, "Do not issue credit." I think it was something like $10 to do that? I'm not really sure - it probably ought to be free.
If I did want credit (sometimes a card is handy) then I have to call and make a one-time request for them to remove the flag and they only remove it for one specific creditor. An oddity is that the one specific creditor is not actually always the name of the lending institution. I'm not sure why that is. For example, it's not "Franklin/Somerset Federal Credit Union" if I want to get credit from them. They do their checks under a name of a larger entity which is sort of like a union of credit unions.
I thought it was broken into by a guy from Romania, he's either here in the US now or he's soon to be on the way here. There's a blurb about him in a short(ish) documentary called "Most Dangerous Town on the Internet." He's some Romanian dude and he broke into that and a few other things.
At least I'm pretty sure that's how the story goes and is how we initially found out about Mrs. Clinton's rogue email server. There was just an article a week or two ago (here on Slashdot) that indicated he was on his way to the United States, he's being/has been extradited to face charges on US soil for the crimes committed on US soil.
In the documentary, he laments being sentenced to five years. I can only imagine that he's going to be a whole lot more unhappy after he gets a federal sentence that is 4 to 10 times as long in a real federal penitentiary.
Yeah, expecting accountability and not blind button pushing is certainly inhumane. Expecting people to look before they leap is certainly inhumane. Expecting people to know what a button does prior to pushing it is expecting responsibility. We can't have that, now can we?