Its simply amazing that given the history of soviet behavior in the post ww2 period that any of you dopes believe in anything the Russians say especially the Russian shills here.
So they did invade a few countries and overthrew a few democratically elected governments, but so what? I mean, which country wouldn't do the exactly same thing if given a chance?
Life is not fair, but in this world you either fuck with people, or they fuck with you.
You should stop bitching and join the club of all the other weak countries shafted by the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the French Empire, the Russian Empire, and the United States (who invaded some 30+ countries since 1946)...
The land belongs to the people who live there. For example, America doesn't belong to the British, it belows to Americans. Kosovo does not belong to Yugoslavia, it belongs to the Albanians. Iraqi Kurdistan does not belong to Iraq, it belongs to the Kurds. Poland and Estonia does not belong to Russia, it belongs to the Poles and to the Estonians...
Does Ossetia belong to Georgia, or to the Ossetians?
The small fact that the US has been quietly (Or not so quietly) bankrolling georgia's resistance to the russians is mostly ignored by US media (but it's all over the news in Europe).
Quite clearly we are losing the media war in Europe (battle over their hearts and minds, if you like). The two stories I read on the Brittish and German news are extremely pro-Russia (and strongly anti-US). I think this is yet another sign of our declining power in the world, and it makes me sad.
If you think your padlock is keeping the Government away (the guys with aircraft carriers and nukes), you must be crazy.
US Government very much cares about the laws since that's about the ONLY thing that can stop them from doing to you what they do to everybody else. For example, the CIA torture manual advises you to always check the local laws first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Torture_Manuals#CIA_manuals
[...]justifying illegal activity by claiming that it's a pain to do it legally.
To be pedantic, we easily justify things like treason (in 1776), helping runaway slaves (ante bellum), shooting an unarmed intruder (illegal in some states), Rosa Parks. Changing even the dumbest of laws ain't that easy, just ask the married couples in TX arrested for using a dildo or anyone caught "speeding" on highway!
I find it interesting that somebody thinks my statement above, about loving different cultures and enjoying learning new things, is flamebait.
I wouldn't worry to much about that: just mods on crack.
Political correctness and sensitivity, I bet. It would be very easy to round up and sanitize all the AIDS patients: something like random saliva checks followed by a reversible chemical castration and a discrete implant/ankle bracelet. It could be done rather inconspicuously, combined with an employee urine test, during a breathalyzer traffic stop, or at a DMV photoshoot:)
But I just don't think most people would go for it. In particular, even though many AIDS victims did "deserve it" by having consentual promiscuous and unprotected sex and drug encounters, there is a significant minority that got AIDS through no fault of their own, e.g. from rape, blood transfusion, dirty medical equipment, or from their parents. So the problems is, many people would feel that AIDS profiling would penalize these victims. I am not even going to mention all the Nazi deathcamp similarities.
Let them come, like they always have. The culture of the U.S. is immigrant to it's core. Let them come... legally!
This sentiment is empty without providing them with a legal way in. And in reality there are only three legal ways to get in for 90+% of people out there:
1) Marry an American 2) Be skilled and lucky enough to get one of the 65,000 H1-B visas (then slave for your company for 6+ years on the off chance they will actually start a green card application). 3) Have about $1,000,000 cash on hand to invest (or $500,000 if you can also create 10 new jobs)
As to whether these criteria are reasonable, most Americans living here right now wouldn't qualify.
It depends how they treat it. For instance, most filters and some ion exchange membranes out there cannot remove small virus particles from solutions.
I for one wouldn't enjoy the thought of drinking a glass of someone's HIV, herpes, or cancer viruses, even though they would probably be harmless at that point.
I am not even going to mention all the homeopathy, alternative medicine, and other considerations that might come into play if they turn out to be true.
Either that, or perhaps some of us prefer being assholes on the Internet rather than in real life.
Also, if I said some of the things I say here in "real" life, I'd probably lose my job, my house, my family, and 50%+ of my contacts. Wouldn't even matter if most of them are true. In contrast, when I post on slashdot I only lose karma.
As noted above, freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences
Yes, yes it does, you fucking numbnuts. Freedom from "consequences" is exactly what is meant by not abridging the freedom of speech. The govt doesn't have to physically gag you for you not to be free to speak.
In Soviet Russia, anyone could call Stalin a cocksucker at any time they liked. But that's not Freedom of Speech because the government would promptly capture, torture, and kill you and your entire family afterwards.
In Britain and most of the rest of the world, people like Bush are known as neo-liberals.
I think Neo-lib is basically more correct since Bush is an extreme liberal as in "pro foreign wars, pro big government, anti religion and morality, control of dissent, restriction of personal freedoms" with a bit of a conservative twist: likes lower taxes and hates killing human fetuses.
I think I should point out exactly what Nixon did for the country (since you are not likely to know it otherwise): 1) school de-segregation: the bulk done under Nixon 2) put an end to permanent Moon base plans, switched NASA to Earth orbit projects (sattelites, space labs, shuttle, etc.) 3) normalized relations with China, Egypt, and a number of other countries that isolated the Soviets and curbed their ambitions, without any military actions 4) adopted a number of arms control agreements with the Soviets (nuclear reductions, ABM treaties, etc.), all while reducing tensions through diplomatic and economic means 5) created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 6) started NOAA 7) created Occupational Safety and Health Administration 6) re-indexed Social Security for inflation, implemented disability payments 7) eradicated the gold standard (end of Bretton Woods), giving America a massive "credit card" that other nations pay instead of us, with THEIR currency inflation. 8) pushed for Comprehensive Health Insurance Act (which the dems went batshit-crazy over, and killed). 9) saved Israel during Yom Kippur by providing arms airlift (as CiC, in opposition to the Dems). The arms supplied stopped the Arab advance; the anti-AA armaments that wiped out Sovied-supplied AA batteries that were establishing air supperiority, basically winning the war for the Arabs up to that point Nixon came in.
That's the problem with most of our citizens being educated by the liberal media.
Vietnam casualties: Under Kennedy and LBJ (Democrats): 32,000+ Under Nixon and Ford (Republicans): 16,000+ source: http://www.rjsmith.com/kia_tbl.html
Vietnam: started on a lie by a democrat. Used conscripted (forced) Americans to fight a losing war. Vietnam: ended by a Republican (Ford), de-escalated by a Republican (Nixon), conscription stopped by a Republican (Nixon).
Nixon did a lot of great things for this country (which the media stonewalls to the day). What's even more sad is that Nixon is probably the most honest president we had since the mid-20th century.
It's not about being black, it's about being poor. There are more minorities in prison because there are more poor people among minorities. And poor people cannot afford a PI, a good attorney, publicity, etc.
Just remember OJ, MJ, or Rodney King to see what good lawyers and free media coverage can get you (despite you being guilty as sin).
So yeah, adjusted for income, our justice system is colorblind.
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I pasted this into my address bar, thinking "why the hell not"
The fact that it actually worked is just plain scary...
What's next? Address bar pong?
Need to nip this Spelling Bee bullshit in the butt.
As I understand it, they are not actually pirating OS X, they merely install retail copies of Apple OS on unblessed hardware, albeit breaking the TOS.
Its simply amazing that given the history of soviet behavior in the post ww2 period that any of you dopes believe in anything the Russians say especially the Russian shills here.
So they did invade a few countries and overthrew a few democratically elected governments, but so what? I mean, which country wouldn't do the exactly same thing if given a chance?
Life is not fair, but in this world you either fuck with people, or they fuck with you.
You should stop bitching and join the club of all the other weak countries shafted by the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the French Empire, the Russian Empire, and the United States (who invaded some 30+ countries since 1946)...
Perhaps you should teach him to select better "heros."
The land belongs to the people who live there. For example,
America doesn't belong to the British, it belows to Americans.
Kosovo does not belong to Yugoslavia, it belongs to the Albanians.
Iraqi Kurdistan does not belong to Iraq, it belongs to the Kurds.
Poland and Estonia does not belong to Russia, it belongs to the Poles and to the Estonians...
Does Ossetia belong to Georgia, or to the Ossetians?
Japan has more people than Russia IIRC.
Numerically, Americans constitute 5% of the world's population.
Therefore, statistically 19 out of 20 intelligent people will be foreign.
The small fact that the US has been quietly (Or not so quietly) bankrolling georgia's resistance to the russians is mostly ignored by US media (but it's all over the news in Europe).
Quite clearly we are losing the media war in Europe (battle over their hearts and minds, if you like). The two stories I read on the Brittish and German news are extremely pro-Russia (and strongly anti-US). I think this is yet another sign of our declining power in the world, and it makes me sad.
If you think your padlock is keeping the Government away (the guys with aircraft carriers and nukes), you must be crazy.
US Government very much cares about the laws since that's about the ONLY thing that can stop them from doing to you what they do to everybody else. For example, the CIA torture manual advises you to always check the local laws first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Torture_Manuals#CIA_manuals
[...]justifying illegal activity by claiming that it's a pain to do it legally.
To be pedantic, we easily justify things like treason (in 1776), helping runaway slaves (ante bellum), shooting an unarmed intruder (illegal in some states), Rosa Parks. Changing even the dumbest of laws ain't that easy, just ask the married couples in TX arrested for using a dildo or anyone caught "speeding" on highway!
I find it interesting that somebody thinks my statement above, about loving different cultures and enjoying learning new things, is flamebait.
I wouldn't worry to much about that: just mods on crack.
Why aren't we doing that?
Political correctness and sensitivity, I bet. It would be very easy to round up and sanitize all the AIDS patients: something like random saliva checks followed by a reversible chemical castration and a discrete implant/ankle bracelet. It could be done rather inconspicuously, combined with an employee urine test, during a breathalyzer traffic stop, or at a DMV photoshoot :)
But I just don't think most people would go for it. In particular, even though many AIDS victims did "deserve it" by having consentual promiscuous and unprotected sex and drug encounters, there is a significant minority that got AIDS through no fault of their own, e.g. from rape, blood transfusion, dirty medical equipment, or from their parents. So the problems is, many people would feel that AIDS profiling would penalize these victims. I am not even going to mention all the Nazi deathcamp similarities.
Let them come, like they always have. The culture of the U.S. is immigrant to it's core. Let them come... legally!
This sentiment is empty without providing them with a legal way in. And in reality there are only three legal ways to get in for 90+% of people out there:
1) Marry an American
2) Be skilled and lucky enough to get one of the 65,000 H1-B visas (then slave for your company for 6+ years on the off chance they will actually start a green card application).
3) Have about $1,000,000 cash on hand to invest (or $500,000 if you can also create 10 new jobs)
As to whether these criteria are reasonable, most Americans living here right now wouldn't qualify.
It depends how they treat it. For instance, most filters and some ion exchange membranes out there cannot remove small virus particles from solutions.
I for one wouldn't enjoy the thought of drinking a glass of someone's HIV, herpes, or cancer viruses, even though they would probably be harmless at that point.
I am not even going to mention all the homeopathy, alternative medicine, and other considerations that might come into play if they turn out to be true.
Use the four boxes: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.
I would only endorce the ballot box though (since I am a coward).
Well, the New Age aristocracy needs something to protect their birthright.
You work at McDonald's?
Either that, or perhaps some of us prefer being assholes on the Internet rather than in real life.
Also, if I said some of the things I say here in "real" life, I'd probably lose my job, my house, my family, and 50%+ of my contacts. Wouldn't even matter if most of them are true. In contrast, when I post on slashdot I only lose karma.
As noted above, freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences
Yes, yes it does, you fucking numbnuts. Freedom from "consequences" is exactly what is meant by not abridging the freedom of speech. The govt doesn't have to physically gag you for you not to be free to speak.
In Soviet Russia, anyone could call Stalin a cocksucker at any time they liked. But that's not Freedom of Speech because the government would promptly capture, torture, and kill you and your entire family afterwards.
In Britain and most of the rest of the world, people like Bush are known as neo-liberals.
I think Neo-lib is basically more correct since Bush is an extreme liberal as in "pro foreign wars, pro big government, anti religion and morality, control of dissent, restriction of personal freedoms" with a bit of a conservative twist: likes lower taxes and hates killing human fetuses.
I think I should point out exactly what Nixon did for the country (since you are not likely to know it otherwise):
1) school de-segregation: the bulk done under Nixon
2) put an end to permanent Moon base plans, switched NASA to Earth orbit projects (sattelites, space labs, shuttle, etc.)
3) normalized relations with China, Egypt, and a number of other countries that isolated the Soviets and curbed their ambitions, without any military actions
4) adopted a number of arms control agreements with the Soviets (nuclear reductions, ABM treaties, etc.), all while reducing tensions through diplomatic and economic means
5) created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
6) started NOAA
7) created Occupational Safety and Health Administration
6) re-indexed Social Security for inflation, implemented disability payments
7) eradicated the gold standard (end of Bretton Woods), giving America a massive "credit card" that other nations pay instead of us, with THEIR currency inflation.
8) pushed for Comprehensive Health Insurance Act (which the dems went batshit-crazy over, and killed).
9) saved Israel during Yom Kippur by providing arms airlift (as CiC, in opposition to the Dems). The arms supplied stopped the Arab advance; the anti-AA armaments that wiped out Sovied-supplied AA batteries that were establishing air supperiority, basically winning the war for the Arabs up to that point Nixon came in.
That's the problem with most of our citizens being educated by the liberal media.
Vietnam casualties: Under Kennedy and LBJ (Democrats): 32,000+
Under Nixon and Ford (Republicans): 16,000+
source: http://www.rjsmith.com/kia_tbl.html
Vietnam: started on a lie by a democrat. Used conscripted (forced) Americans to fight a losing war.
Vietnam: ended by a Republican (Ford), de-escalated by a Republican (Nixon), conscription stopped by a Republican (Nixon).
Nixon did a lot of great things for this country (which the media stonewalls to the day).
What's even more sad is that Nixon is probably the most honest president we had since the mid-20th century.
It's not about being black, it's about being poor. There are more minorities in prison because there are more poor people among minorities. And poor people cannot afford a PI, a good attorney, publicity, etc.
Just remember OJ, MJ, or Rodney King to see what good lawyers and free media coverage can get you (despite you being guilty as sin).
So yeah, adjusted for income, our justice system is colorblind.
Since you are a gun owner, you should realize that they will first come for YOU (since they know where you live).
And the rest of us will cheer ("make streets safe for our children" or whatever) them on until it's too late.
Two reasons for not wrestling with pigs: you will get dirty and the pig might like it.