People only did this because they ignored the real petitions and even most of the ones they answer are canned bullshit PR responses. It's a gimmick to make you think they care at all in any way whatsoever what you think.
Which I think is part of the accidental brilliance of the program. It lays bare the spinworks in play in politics. When you see a political advertisement that goes on and on about how much some candidate cares about YOU and your problems, here is the undeniable indisputable evidence of a government that doesn't give a crap about you.
The best image in the spirit of this revelation is this one IMO.
Thanks to those who started petitions for Master Chief statues, roaming motorcycle gangs of justices, and Death Stars. Without you folks making jokes out of serious attempts to make political headway on important issues, we might not have had our collective voices diluted. Making a mockery of those interested in forcing the white house to defend, or oppose, or otherwise make a solid stand of issues sure is helpful.
Let's see what nonsense you can come up with to raise that threshold from 100,000 to 250,000.
Besides, patriotism is pride over your arbitrary location on a single, tiny blue planet divided by imaginary lines
Ooh! Ooh! Imaginary lines! Like Oceans. Like Rivers. Like Mountain Ranges.
There are good reasons not to be patriotic in nasty countries. Bringing up bogus reasons weakens your argument and makes you look foolish.
The fact that many (but not all) political lines correspond with these physical formations has nothing to do with the formation itself and instead has to do with the ability to defend against those who want what's yours. Consider rivers and mountain ranges that aren't borders.
I contend standing by patriotism is foolish. If you want to be proud of something, do something to be proud of, don't just line up with some flag. Response from JonStewartMill is rather insightful in the true purpose of cultivating it.
Overdrinking and binge drinking contributes to the deaths of 23,000 women and girls a year. Sherly we should outlaw or put new rules and limits on drinking alcoholic beverages. After all statistics are all we are caring about, we should do the most good right... [Citation: CDC report in the news last week.]
A significant portion are underage, too.
Laws don't "make things happen", other than grow government.
They shot themselves because police finally arrived and they had no place to go. They knew the police had guns, and armor, so that's all it took for them to know they stood no chance compared to the hoards of the defenseless.
If "good guys with guns" on the site in advance, best case, nobody would have to die including the perpetrators. Worst case, they kill themselves someplace out of sight and putting no one else in danger.
IMHO, words mean things, and the ends don't justify the means.
The ruling class positions themselves to know better than all of us on all things, particularly liberty. I think it behooves them to be accurate if they are going to implement laws that say we can't be civilized otherwise.
Best case, it's a mistake. Worst case, it's a deliberate flub to confuse any argument against the proposed law by splitting detractors' focus on what the issue actually is.
Parent didn't say they didn't care. They just said it wasn't relevant.
Besides, patriotism is pride over your arbitrary location on a single, tiny blue planet divided by imaginary lines. In other words, it's completely shallow and nothing anyone should aspire to have.
From what I understand, the legal gun ownership is taken from certain type of gun, not solely from owning a gun. Tell me why do you need an assault rifle to hunt? Maybe you have no skill in using a gun to shoot a deer and kill it in 1 shot?
all the talk about restricting legal gun rights vs the other shootings
Because one bad apple could rot the whole basket of apples. If you want the reason, you should think about who benefit from not restricting V. restricting. Also what would happen when no restriction V. restriction.
The point being that gun control is not the answer. Can't regulate crazy. When assault weapons get banned, and I'm pretty sure it'll happen this year, the next Gun Free Zone Shooting Gallery High Score Event will be used to say the gun control isn't strong enough, and the cycle continues ad infinitum, until all guns are confiscated.
I don't actually want to be alive when that happens, but I have a morbid curiosity to what the gun control advocates are going to say when guns are completely outlawed and some nut steals a criminal's weapon, or builds one himself, and goes on a rampage. I presume the media circus would quickly bury it, like that mall shooting a few days before Sandy Hook that was resolved by a private citizen who was also carrying a weapon.
"Well I believe the puppet on the left has MY interests at heart, well I believe the puppet on the right shares MY beliefs...hey wait a minute, there is one guy working both puppets!" Bill Hicks.
ANY of you that believe that left/right bullshit is anything more than kayfabe put on by the rulers of this country to keep the peasants too busy arguing to notice they are ALL getting fucked should really try this little game i have, its called three card monty and I'm sure you'll find the lady!
I propose a slightly different twist. The peasants ARE noticing they're getting fucked, but the divisive us-vs-them tribalism mentality keeps people thinking it's the other guy that's screwing them.
Last time the citizenry was getting fucked from every which way and had only ONE source to blame, it resulted in the American Revolution. Even if the general public isn't learning from history, TPTB certainly are.
Because just like the wrestler he does what he's told and reads from the cue card.
I love your choice of words, because former governor Jesse Ventura often described politics as pro wrestling, where everyone pretends to hate each other during performance but then they go out drinking together afterwords.
Why does everything have to be a political argument? This mostly has to do with being humane. If you wouldn't want this to happen to yourself or your loved ones, why would you pay to see it happen to somebody else?
Because for generations school funding had been diverted away from the fundamentals of an enriching education in favor of sanctioned sports. And as the public school system crumble with teachers and professionals alike saying we need to focus on education, our politicians gladly raise our taxes only for the windfall to again be mismanaged into non-priority academics.
Best case is that it was blind loyalty to a stupid game of tribalism, worst case is that it's intentional to keep the cup rattling for more money.
The problem then is that the software AND the hardware are closed.
But I think you're on the right path. Nobody is going to be able to build a phone from scratch without relying on other people's work, from the API libraries to the silicon, and have it be even remotely functional.
Modern technology is basically billions of man hours distilled into a single object, repeated multiple times into a useful device. How many of those hours have roots in being malicious, or a snoop, or a government planting seeds?
A keyboard has no precision at all, it's either 1 or 0.
Dude. You need a new keyboard. Morse clickers went out a long time ago.
My keyboard has what - about 40 keys? And I know I can do combinations of at least 3 keys at once - but I don't know the full limit. Let's say it's 3, and any 3 at that.
That means my keyboard is capable of about 40^3 combinations. Hey - that looks like 64,000, which is closer to 2^16 than it is to 2^1.
Funny you mention 3 3 just happens to be the number Valve is missing from all their keyboards.:)
The problem is that Conservatives have linked "privacy" to a 12 year old having an abortion without notifying her parents or the father, and shaming the children into carrying the baby is part of their anti-abortion master plan. So we can't have privacy at Disneyland without killing babies (or so the Conservatives tell us).
Holy hyperbole, Batman!
The reason why privacy is part of the abortion debate is because Roe v Wade cited a right to privacy. No matter which side you fall on the debate, you can't deny that's some pretty shaky constitutional grounds on which to base such an important case. They should have just said that the law's protection of life starts only at birth and not at conception and call it a day. Or vice versa, whatever. But no, people have to do a little dance to disguise the ugly truth. FWIW, the world is ugly, and euphemisms don't make it any less so.
One way it's creepy is that this will probably include kids. Maybe the message they're getting is "It's okay when corporations track you at all times. In fact, it's MAGIC! (TM)"
This.
There's a clear push towards tracking initiatives and "public information awareness" and I don't think it's an accident. From Amazon Wish Lists to Facebook to Four Square to Yelp. In a generation or two, people won't think twice about making every detail of their lives very public and very datamine friendly. Those future people won't have a reaction when they hear that others are recording what they eat, when they sleep, and what they like to do in their spare time. The ultimate goal is to shape society so that it sees avoidance of tracking and monitoring as a strange thing. "Huh? Why wouldn't you want to share when your last BM was? Why are you being so secretive? Are you a secret agent?"
The Shadowrun source books touch on this*. Everyone transfers money around as credits between bank accounts and there's nothing anonymous about it. While anonymous cash still exists, it's very fringe. Anyone who tries to obtain, holds, or tries to use cash is seen as a deviant or a criminal.
What better way to get total compliance when you can twist society's values into making it NORMAL.
* I hate referring to RPGs but I've actually found relevance in the past few years when future-speak starts getting tossed around.
He didn't get fired or was unable to find work, he had a job and he quit because he plain didn't like work. He had the luxury to do this thanks to Dear Old Dad.
Considering that through much of history men have married women with lower levels of educational attainment and income, and been able to be happy in those relationships without considering their wives "low-lives", I'm not sure why the reverse would be impossible.
Parents are still teaching their daughters about being a damsel in distress and that a dashing prince will save them. They'll sit them down in front of a Disney movie and let it teach them those kinds of lessons. Little girls are being constantly reinforced with the idea that they need a strong man in their life to be complete.
Society also functions in that way. In divorce, the courts are heavily biased towards women. The starting point for negotiations isn't 50/50, the starting point is 50 + alimony for her + child support for her / whatever is left. A man not paying can get a warrant on him and his paychecks garnished. Consider: there aren't too many government-backed collection vehicles aside from liens and the IRS, so this is pretty unique. The state enforces the woman to be the "weaker sex". The court can order child support paid, for example, even when none of the parents want it, as is the case recently in KY where a sperm donor is now on the hook because he didn't go through an state-recognized institution like a fertility clinic.
I'm not sure it really started that way, though. At one point in time, Don't Be Evil was a very quantifiable thing, in the face of software patents and monopolies.
I blame the IPO.
It's the American Dream: start a business, get successful, sell out, and use the funds to build a machine that will make money (the modern corporation). At that point it has a soul of it's own, a completely inhuman and greed-centric soul.
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Not only that, since it will be the new normal, you will be strange for not wanting to give up that data.
Depends on how much boring grunt work they pawned off to the intern while the rockstars pontificated on architecture.
People only did this because they ignored the real petitions and even most of the ones they answer are canned bullshit PR responses. It's a gimmick to make you think they care at all in any way whatsoever what you think.
Which I think is part of the accidental brilliance of the program. It lays bare the spinworks in play in politics. When you see a political advertisement that goes on and on about how much some candidate cares about YOU and your problems, here is the undeniable indisputable evidence of a government that doesn't give a crap about you.
The best image in the spirit of this revelation is this one IMO.
Thanks to those who started petitions for Master Chief statues, roaming motorcycle gangs of justices, and Death Stars. Without you folks making jokes out of serious attempts to make political headway on important issues, we might not have had our collective voices diluted. Making a mockery of those interested in forcing the white house to defend, or oppose, or otherwise make a solid stand of issues sure is helpful.
Let's see what nonsense you can come up with to raise that threshold from 100,000 to 250,000.
Ooh! Ooh! Imaginary lines! Like Oceans. Like Rivers. Like Mountain Ranges.
There are good reasons not to be patriotic in nasty countries. Bringing up bogus reasons weakens your argument and makes you look foolish.
The fact that many (but not all) political lines correspond with these physical formations has nothing to do with the formation itself and instead has to do with the ability to defend against those who want what's yours. Consider rivers and mountain ranges that aren't borders.
I contend standing by patriotism is foolish. If you want to be proud of something, do something to be proud of, don't just line up with some flag. Response from JonStewartMill is rather insightful in the true purpose of cultivating it.
I should grow up?
You do know that Bushmaster were advertising the AR15 with the slogan "consider your man card reissued"?
I'm just assuming they know their market.
Yes, there have never been any other company that has had childish, offensive, sexist, racist, or otherwise insensitive advertising.
I can't wait until I see a racist advertisement so I can don a KKK cloak and go to town. You know, because they did it too.
Overdrinking and binge drinking contributes to the deaths of 23,000 women and girls a year. Sherly we should outlaw or put new rules and limits on drinking alcoholic beverages. After all statistics are all we are caring about, we should do the most good right... [Citation: CDC report in the news last week.]
A significant portion are underage, too.
Laws don't "make things happen", other than grow government.
They shot themselves because police finally arrived and they had no place to go. They knew the police had guns, and armor, so that's all it took for them to know they stood no chance compared to the hoards of the defenseless.
If "good guys with guns" on the site in advance, best case, nobody would have to die including the perpetrators. Worst case, they kill themselves someplace out of sight and putting no one else in danger.
You know, rolled up just right, bullets pointed the right way, and a hard enough fling of the periodical...
IMHO, words mean things, and the ends don't justify the means.
The ruling class positions themselves to know better than all of us on all things, particularly liberty. I think it behooves them to be accurate if they are going to implement laws that say we can't be civilized otherwise.
Best case, it's a mistake. Worst case, it's a deliberate flub to confuse any argument against the proposed law by splitting detractors' focus on what the issue actually is.
Parent didn't say they didn't care. They just said it wasn't relevant.
Besides, patriotism is pride over your arbitrary location on a single, tiny blue planet divided by imaginary lines. In other words, it's completely shallow and nothing anyone should aspire to have.
remove freely legal gun ownership
From what I understand, the legal gun ownership is taken from certain type of gun, not solely from owning a gun. Tell me why do you need an assault rifle to hunt? Maybe you have no skill in using a gun to shoot a deer and kill it in 1 shot?
all the talk about restricting legal gun rights vs the other shootings
Because one bad apple could rot the whole basket of apples. If you want the reason, you should think about who benefit from not restricting V. restricting. Also what would happen when no restriction V. restriction.
The point being that gun control is not the answer. Can't regulate crazy. When assault weapons get banned, and I'm pretty sure it'll happen this year, the next Gun Free Zone Shooting Gallery High Score Event will be used to say the gun control isn't strong enough, and the cycle continues ad infinitum, until all guns are confiscated.
I don't actually want to be alive when that happens, but I have a morbid curiosity to what the gun control advocates are going to say when guns are completely outlawed and some nut steals a criminal's weapon, or builds one himself, and goes on a rampage. I presume the media circus would quickly bury it, like that mall shooting a few days before Sandy Hook that was resolved by a private citizen who was also carrying a weapon.
"Well I believe the puppet on the left has MY interests at heart, well I believe the puppet on the right shares MY beliefs...hey wait a minute, there is one guy working both puppets!" Bill Hicks.
ANY of you that believe that left/right bullshit is anything more than kayfabe put on by the rulers of this country to keep the peasants too busy arguing to notice they are ALL getting fucked should really try this little game i have, its called three card monty and I'm sure you'll find the lady!
I propose a slightly different twist. The peasants ARE noticing they're getting fucked, but the divisive us-vs-them tribalism mentality keeps people thinking it's the other guy that's screwing them.
Last time the citizenry was getting fucked from every which way and had only ONE source to blame, it resulted in the American Revolution. Even if the general public isn't learning from history, TPTB certainly are.
Because just like the wrestler he does what he's told and reads from the cue card.
I love your choice of words, because former governor Jesse Ventura often described politics as pro wrestling, where everyone pretends to hate each other during performance but then they go out drinking together afterwords.
Why does everything have to be a political argument? This mostly has to do with being humane. If you wouldn't want this to happen to yourself or your loved ones, why would you pay to see it happen to somebody else?
Because for generations school funding had been diverted away from the fundamentals of an enriching education in favor of sanctioned sports. And as the public school system crumble with teachers and professionals alike saying we need to focus on education, our politicians gladly raise our taxes only for the windfall to again be mismanaged into non-priority academics.
Best case is that it was blind loyalty to a stupid game of tribalism, worst case is that it's intentional to keep the cup rattling for more money.
The problem then is that the software AND the hardware are closed.
But I think you're on the right path. Nobody is going to be able to build a phone from scratch without relying on other people's work, from the API libraries to the silicon, and have it be even remotely functional.
Modern technology is basically billions of man hours distilled into a single object, repeated multiple times into a useful device. How many of those hours have roots in being malicious, or a snoop, or a government planting seeds?
A keyboard has no precision at all, it's either 1 or 0.
Dude. You need a new keyboard. Morse clickers went out a long time ago.
My keyboard has what - about 40 keys? And I know I can do combinations of at least 3 keys at once - but I don't know the full limit. Let's say it's 3, and any 3 at that.
That means my keyboard is capable of about 40^3 combinations. Hey - that looks like 64,000, which is closer to 2^16 than it is to 2^1.
Funny you mention 3 :)
3 just happens to be the number Valve is missing from all their keyboards.
The problem is that Conservatives have linked "privacy" to a 12 year old having an abortion without notifying her parents or the father, and shaming the children into carrying the baby is part of their anti-abortion master plan. So we can't have privacy at Disneyland without killing babies (or so the Conservatives tell us).
Holy hyperbole, Batman!
The reason why privacy is part of the abortion debate is because Roe v Wade cited a right to privacy. No matter which side you fall on the debate, you can't deny that's some pretty shaky constitutional grounds on which to base such an important case. They should have just said that the law's protection of life starts only at birth and not at conception and call it a day. Or vice versa, whatever. But no, people have to do a little dance to disguise the ugly truth. FWIW, the world is ugly, and euphemisms don't make it any less so.
You want to eat rides....?
It's called a mustache ride for a reason.
One way it's creepy is that this will probably include kids. Maybe the message they're getting is "It's okay when corporations track you at all times. In fact, it's MAGIC! (TM)"
This.
There's a clear push towards tracking initiatives and "public information awareness" and I don't think it's an accident. From Amazon Wish Lists to Facebook to Four Square to Yelp. In a generation or two, people won't think twice about making every detail of their lives very public and very datamine friendly. Those future people won't have a reaction when they hear that others are recording what they eat, when they sleep, and what they like to do in their spare time. The ultimate goal is to shape society so that it sees avoidance of tracking and monitoring as a strange thing. "Huh? Why wouldn't you want to share when your last BM was? Why are you being so secretive? Are you a secret agent?"
The Shadowrun source books touch on this*. Everyone transfers money around as credits between bank accounts and there's nothing anonymous about it. While anonymous cash still exists, it's very fringe. Anyone who tries to obtain, holds, or tries to use cash is seen as a deviant or a criminal.
What better way to get total compliance when you can twist society's values into making it NORMAL.
* I hate referring to RPGs but I've actually found relevance in the past few years when future-speak starts getting tossed around.
So, who are the Legion of Doom?
He didn't get fired or was unable to find work, he had a job and he quit because he plain didn't like work. He had the luxury to do this thanks to Dear Old Dad.
Another vote for kick 'em out.
False Flag is misogynistic? Could you elaborate on this apparent non sequitur?
Considering that through much of history men have married women with lower levels of educational attainment and income, and been able to be happy in those relationships without considering their wives "low-lives", I'm not sure why the reverse would be impossible.
Parents are still teaching their daughters about being a damsel in distress and that a dashing prince will save them. They'll sit them down in front of a Disney movie and let it teach them those kinds of lessons. Little girls are being constantly reinforced with the idea that they need a strong man in their life to be complete.
Society also functions in that way. In divorce, the courts are heavily biased towards women. The starting point for negotiations isn't 50/50, the starting point is 50 + alimony for her + child support for her / whatever is left. A man not paying can get a warrant on him and his paychecks garnished. Consider: there aren't too many government-backed collection vehicles aside from liens and the IRS, so this is pretty unique. The state enforces the woman to be the "weaker sex". The court can order child support paid, for example, even when none of the parents want it, as is the case recently in KY where a sperm donor is now on the hook because he didn't go through an state-recognized institution like a fertility clinic.
And "Honey Boo Boo" is a really popular show.
The moral of the story? The masses are idiots.
I'm not sure it really started that way, though. At one point in time, Don't Be Evil was a very quantifiable thing, in the face of software patents and monopolies.
I blame the IPO.
It's the American Dream: start a business, get successful, sell out, and use the funds to build a machine that will make money (the modern corporation). At that point it has a soul of it's own, a completely inhuman and greed-centric soul.