even further, not just colleges, but ALL schools: the textbook publishers have a gigantic scam (did someone say *cough*gatekeepers*cough* ?) where they change trivial shit in textbooks meant to be used year-after-year, so -in effect- you *can't* use them, you are FORCED to buy the 'newest edition' this year, cause they changed a comma on page 247...
it has NOTHING to do with updating actual content, it is ALL about forcing schools to buy new books nearly every year, EVEN ON SUBJECTS which are sufficiently 'fixed' or narrow enough that the books could be used for decades...
my better half (a teacher: if any of you reichwing pukes or childish libertarians want to go on a teacher-bashing binge, drop me a line so i can re-educate your idiot butts on what the real story is, art guerrilla at windstream dot net), tells me all kinds of stories about how they are PREVENTED from re-using PERFECTLY GOOD BOOKS, in all kinds of ways: they will change the order of the same questions/answers in the teacher's edition so it is impractical to use them from year-to-year; they will change the order of chapters or pagination simply to make re-using old books with 'new' study guides, not to mention the publishers have onerous contracts where you can't 'legally' re-use books, study guides, and other training materials associated with the books...
guess what ? ? ? this has FUCKALL to do with 'helping the chilluns'; it is ALL ABOUT RIPPING US ALL OFF by a captive market that is corrupt from top to bottom...
(and -yes- i agree with the poster, you have taken a complicated situation and reduced it to simplistic good/bad, *AND* swallowed the 'official' amerikan version of the situation hook, line, and sinker...)
the 'exiled' leader WAS democratically elected in what were seen as generally fair elections... further, your condescending noting that he wasn't there was sheer idiocy: neither was jean baptists aristade 'there' after he was kicked out BY UNKA SUGAR and our proxies...
yet, he IS the rightful leader (nevermind that WE pressured the whole world to ignore that in order to install the military thugs WE WANTED), whether exiled or not...
that was a petty comment indicative of prejudice, not a reasoned position...
*as if* unka sugar is *really* targeting rich folk, etc who take advantage of all these grey/black areas of transactions, etc...
*just like* the banks that ADMITTED to money laundering got prosecuted ? ? ? oh, wait, didn't happen...
you know all the zillions of dollars of illegal drug money floating around ? you do know where it gets laundered at rates of 30-75% ? the banksters, right ? (yes, that is correct: you take the bank $1 000 000 in drug money, and you will receive 250 000 back of 'clean' money, nice work if you can get it...)
now, since we KNOW that IS where all the drug money gets laundered, you'd figure it would be really easy to surveil and catch those crafty banksters, wouldn't you ? ? ?
gee, i can only wonder what the explanation is for why 99.99% of them NEVER GET INVESTIGATED, much less prosectued, much less jailed...
can you guess why that is so ? ? ?
(hint: you will not find that info in the lamestream media, this is deep political stuff that is NOT talked about on the sunday shows...)
well, a BBQ gun *would* be great: shooting some smoked pork products directly into my mouth ? sign me up !
i might pick one nit with the article: BB guns and pellet guns are not the same, there are *some* combo bb/pellet guns, but usually it is one or the tother...
technically, i think they both come in a couple sizes, but the bb's are generally round shot about 1/8" in diameter, while the pellets are lead slugs about 3/16"-1/4" wide/deep (.177 'caliber' if i recall correctly), usually with a hollowed center for the air to propel it in a stable fashion...
for most 'normal' bb/pellet guns, you would be hard-pressed to kill or seriously injure someone, NOT that it couldn't be done, but it would be rare/difficult... sure, you could -cue mom's everywhere- 'put out an eye', but mostly it would just sting real bad... (NOT excusing the idiot's behavior, just giving an idea of the 'risk' associated with bb/pellet guns for those not familiar with them... again, the main fear was that it was a 'real' gun, not that the bb/pellets couldn't do some damage...)
that's great, nick at nite, but you are missing the forest for the trees: whites use -say- illegal drugs at a slightly HIGHER rate than blacks, and yet blacks are FAR MORE likely to be arrested and jailed for possession of said illegal drugs... one might be -if one were not obeisant to authority- curious as to why that is so... well, i'll tell you why: IF the piggies went no-knocking in more affluent and/or whiter neighborhoods and picked up all the white people with coke/etc, there would be such screaming and kvetching that you would have thought some sort of real injustice was going on... so, IF the piggies were actually doing their jobs without fear or favor, instead of picking on the poor and benighted who can't get out of the way of piggies, you would find equal numbers of drug crimes in each of the neighborhoods, and thus their 'predictions' should present them each as being equivalent... they do not... they will not... they dare not... they are picking on the poor and weak because they can; EVEN IF the donut eaters *wanted* to go after wealthier/whiter people, they will not do so for fear of losing their jobs...
Re: They've already stopped 12 active shooters....
1. in spite of my criticism to follow, thank you for your post and point... 2. um, i call 'bullshit' on the 12 'active shooters' (whatever, when LEO start in on their own lingo, perverting and changing the meanings of normal words, you know they are hiding shit they are up to)... and the feebs have 'foiled' a dozen 'terrorist' plots, too, doncha know ! ! ! /sarc off 3. simply put: an academic who is 'selling' (whether literally or not) a system ('his' system?) which predicts stuff and he says others say it did and stopped 12 shooters ? ? ? well, by gosh and by golly that surely must be true, then... 4. not only does LEO and the (in)justice department have a license to kill, they have a license to lie; i don't trust ANY OF THEM, EVER... (they have earned that distrust) 5. you know what, i spy on 100% of the pre-criminal citizens, maybe i can stop a few crimes too... BUT AT WHAT COST ? ? ? they lose their souls, and we lose our freedom... NOT a 'trade-off' i want to make... even remotely... our brief *SHOULD* be to maximize freedom, not minimize it... we are going the wrong way...
1. if their voting system is as vulnerable, proprietary, and incapable of auditing as ours is, then maybe he wasn't 'elected' by -you know- actually counting actual votes...
2. if their political system is as exclusionary and reactionary as ours is, then the good people down under probably had a choice of A. marginally sane korporate shill, and B. batshit insane extremist korporate shill...
3. looking more and more like it will take many necktie parties to undo this aconstitutional horror we lovingly call Empire...
say, "bob", where'd you go ? ? ? oh, can't defend your indefensible MAFIAA talking points ? ? ? is there a point to your incessant shouting of 'is too !!!', while plugging your ears and going 'neener-neener, can't hear you...', all without defending the concept in any rational form ? ? ? no? didn't think so... gosh, i sure am looking forward to the day when i grow up and the adults are in charge of the world; 'cause -so far- its looking like it is 'tards all the way down ! ! !
he is obviously going to print out each frame and staple it into an animated flipbook; *then* who will ever want to go see the moving pictures when they have the equivalent right in their own hands ? ? ?
i will point out as i have a number of times: nanobots are HERE, NOW... (yes, they are 'proof of concept' type lab gizmos, but it ain't too far off... who knows what the NSA has up their sleeve, or our butts...)
so-o-o-o, by this 'judges' 'logic', when we have nanobots crawling up our ass, inserting themselves in our neurons, and otherwise spying on us down to the cellular level, it will be -like- totally double-plus good, 'cause they are -like- totally unobtrusive and shit...
fucking moron... i have a special necktie for you and your kind...
i will say this in reply to some of the misguided remarks of posters below: architects *rarely* get an opportunity to design/build buildings which are a edifices to THEIR OWN 'egos', etc... in general, they are at the mercy and whim of THE OWNER'S ego...
yeah, but... both semi-smart phones and tablets do these things already, (and - i would claim- better)... i can see where the hands-free aspect could have some use for -say- a mechanic who actually has wrench in hand and is looking up the nut in question gets torqued at X ft-lbs, whatever... i mean, i have no doubt that google goggles (really, that *should* have been the name) in some form will evolve to be useful, if not ubiquitous... but, smart phones are ubiquitous NOW, but i bet 90-99% of the users are using them for angry birds, etc, and NOT field manuals of machinery, interface to systems, etc... it is WAY overkill for most of the users doing stupid stuff... (NOT that there is anything wrong with stupid stuff, but it isn't task/work related that contributes to REAL efficiencies in the workings of the world...)
uh huh... i can't remember if i related this story here: got hit by two vehicles, did the insurance thing, gave them all the accident report info... *then*, i get a message on my cellyphone, and an email, that said 'Oh, we need more info on the other accident parties, please call, urgent, blah blah blah...' call the number anxious to make sure nothing is holding up getting my truck repaired, etc; and it is TOTALLY some marketing bullshit trick... when i smoosh button 2, NO, i don't want your retarded local discount card, thinking it would take me to a real claims adjuster, no, it takes me to another sales pitch, 'are you sure you don't want this offer, blah blah blah...', when i smoosh 2, NO again, it says, 'oh, this line is only for people who accept the offer, good bye', and hangs up ON ME... so, there WAS NO OTHER INFO you bastards really needed ? you were just using me as a marketing sucker ? ? ? fuckers... so, i sends a nastygram to insurance HQ, and they send an auto-response thanking me for me email, and -oh- 'by the way, we still need critical accident info from you, please call this number...' yes, it was the same scam number for the same marketing bullshit i was just writing them about...
IF ONLY korporations WERE real people we could put a noose around their korporate necks and hang them until dead, Dead, DEAD ! ! !
thank you... what this highlights, is how absurd 'The Law' has become: when you have to twist meanings, ignore reality, and slant decisions to ENSURE they are bidness-approved, NOT for the greatest good for the greatest number... 'The Law' has become ALL about ensuring the primacy of korporate rule, NOT what serves us 99%... otherwise, there would be NO WAY they would not be seen as common carriers...
long, long ago (plus 75 years), there was a concept known as the 'public good', crazy, isn't it ? ? ?
but we are much more advanceder now, (the Most CIVILIZEDEST Evah!), so we don't need useless stuff like 'public commonwealth' and such, private enterprise is obviously so much more superior in outcome for us rubes...
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Re: Re: Great way to waste paper...
it has NOTHING to do with updating actual content, it is ALL about forcing schools to buy new books nearly every year, EVEN ON SUBJECTS which are sufficiently 'fixed' or narrow enough that the books could be used for decades...
my better half (a teacher: if any of you reichwing pukes or childish libertarians want to go on a teacher-bashing binge, drop me a line so i can re-educate your idiot butts on what the real story is, art guerrilla at windstream dot net), tells me all kinds of stories about how they are PREVENTED from re-using PERFECTLY GOOD BOOKS, in all kinds of ways: they will change the order of the same questions/answers in the teacher's edition so it is impractical to use them from year-to-year; they will change the order of chapters or pagination simply to make re-using old books with 'new' study guides, not to mention the publishers have onerous contracts where you can't 'legally' re-use books, study guides, and other training materials associated with the books...
guess what ? ? ?
this has FUCKALL to do with 'helping the chilluns'; it is ALL ABOUT RIPPING US ALL OFF by a captive market that is corrupt from top to bottom...
SNAFU is the new norm...
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Re: Re: Re: Techdirt and US-financed revolutions
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Re: Re: Techdirt and US-financed revolutions
you might start there...
(and -yes- i agree with the poster, you have taken a complicated situation and reduced it to simplistic good/bad, *AND* swallowed the 'official' amerikan version of the situation hook, line, and sinker...)
the 'exiled' leader WAS democratically elected in what were seen as generally fair elections...
further, your condescending noting that he wasn't there was sheer idiocy: neither was jean baptists aristade 'there' after he was kicked out BY UNKA SUGAR and our proxies...
yet, he IS the rightful leader (nevermind that WE pressured the whole world to ignore that in order to install the military thugs WE WANTED), whether exiled or not...
that was a petty comment indicative of prejudice, not a reasoned position...
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Re: Re: Olympics in stupidity?
*as if* unka sugar is *really* targeting rich folk, etc who take advantage of all these grey/black areas of transactions, etc...
*just like* the banks that ADMITTED to money laundering got prosecuted ? ? ?
oh, wait, didn't happen...
you know all the zillions of dollars of illegal drug money floating around ? you do know where it gets laundered at rates of 30-75% ? the banksters, right ?
(yes, that is correct: you take the bank $1 000 000 in drug money, and you will receive 250 000 back of 'clean' money, nice work if you can get it...)
now, since we KNOW that IS where all the drug money gets laundered, you'd figure it would be really easy to surveil and catch those crafty banksters, wouldn't you ? ? ?
gee, i can only wonder what the explanation is for why 99.99% of them NEVER GET INVESTIGATED, much less prosectued, much less jailed...
can you guess why that is so ? ? ?
(hint: you will not find that info in the lamestream media, this is deep political stuff that is NOT talked about on the sunday shows...)
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(and, i guaran-dog-damn-tee you that if you cut off one hydra head, two Korporate Money Party heads would re-grow in its place...)
no, a pox on both their houses, they deserve it...
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i might pick one nit with the article: BB guns and pellet guns are not the same, there are *some* combo bb/pellet guns, but usually it is one or the tother...
technically, i think they both come in a couple sizes, but the bb's are generally round shot about 1/8" in diameter, while the pellets are lead slugs about 3/16"-1/4" wide/deep (.177 'caliber' if i recall correctly), usually with a hollowed center for the air to propel it in a stable fashion...
for most 'normal' bb/pellet guns, you would be hard-pressed to kill or seriously injure someone, NOT that it couldn't be done, but it would be rare/difficult... sure, you could -cue mom's everywhere- 'put out an eye', but mostly it would just sting real bad...
(NOT excusing the idiot's behavior, just giving an idea of the 'risk' associated with bb/pellet guns for those not familiar with them... again, the main fear was that it was a 'real' gun, not that the bb/pellets couldn't do some damage...)
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one might be -if one were not obeisant to authority- curious as to why that is so...
well, i'll tell you why: IF the piggies went no-knocking in more affluent and/or whiter neighborhoods and picked up all the white people with coke/etc, there would be such screaming and kvetching that you would have thought some sort of real injustice was going on...
so, IF the piggies were actually doing their jobs without fear or favor, instead of picking on the poor and benighted who can't get out of the way of piggies, you would find equal numbers of drug crimes in each of the neighborhoods, and thus their 'predictions' should present them each as being equivalent...
they do not...
they will not...
they dare not...
they are picking on the poor and weak because they can; EVEN IF the donut eaters *wanted* to go after wealthier/whiter people, they will not do so for fear of losing their jobs...
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Re: They've already stopped 12 active shooters....
2. um, i call 'bullshit' on the 12 'active shooters' (whatever, when LEO start in on their own lingo, perverting and changing the meanings of normal words, you know they are hiding shit they are up to)...
and the feebs have 'foiled' a dozen 'terrorist' plots, too, doncha know ! ! ! /sarc off
3. simply put: an academic who is 'selling' (whether literally or not) a system ('his' system?) which predicts stuff and he says others say it did and stopped 12 shooters ? ? ? well, by gosh and by golly that surely must be true, then...
4. not only does LEO and the (in)justice department have a license to kill, they have a license to lie; i don't trust ANY OF THEM, EVER... (they have earned that distrust)
5. you know what, i spy on 100% of the pre-criminal citizens, maybe i can stop a few crimes too...
BUT AT WHAT COST ? ? ?
they lose their souls, and we lose our freedom...
NOT a 'trade-off' i want to make...
even remotely...
our brief *SHOULD* be to maximize freedom, not minimize it... we are going the wrong way...
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2. if their political system is as exclusionary and reactionary as ours is, then the good people down under probably had a choice of A. marginally sane korporate shill, and B. batshit insane extremist korporate shill...
3. looking more and more like it will take many necktie parties to undo this aconstitutional horror we lovingly call Empire...
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Re: Re: Depends upon what you mean by "fair use"
oh, can't defend your indefensible MAFIAA talking points ? ? ?
is there a point to your incessant shouting of 'is too !!!', while plugging your ears and going 'neener-neener, can't hear you...', all without defending the concept in any rational form ? ? ?
no?
didn't think so...
gosh, i sure am looking forward to the day when i grow up and the adults are in charge of the world; 'cause -so far- its looking like it is 'tards all the way down ! ! !
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he is obviously going to print out each frame and staple it into an animated flipbook; *then* who will ever want to go see the moving pictures when they have the equivalent right in their own hands ? ? ?
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"sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander", FOR THE WIN !
excellent point, thank you...
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(yes, they are 'proof of concept' type lab gizmos, but it ain't too far off... who knows what the NSA has up their sleeve, or our butts...)
so-o-o-o, by this 'judges' 'logic', when we have nanobots crawling up our ass, inserting themselves in our neurons, and otherwise spying on us down to the cellular level, it will be -like- totally double-plus good, 'cause they are -like- totally unobtrusive and shit...
fucking moron...
i have a special necktie for you and your kind...
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Re: Double Standards
you nailed it, thanks...
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i will say this in reply to some of the misguided remarks of posters below: architects *rarely* get an opportunity to design/build buildings which are a edifices to THEIR OWN 'egos', etc... in general, they are at the mercy and whim of THE OWNER'S ego...
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Re: Re: Possible Professional Use
both semi-smart phones and tablets do these things already, (and - i would claim- better)...
i can see where the hands-free aspect could have some use for -say- a mechanic who actually has wrench in hand and is looking up the nut in question gets torqued at X ft-lbs, whatever...
i mean, i have no doubt that google goggles (really, that *should* have been the name) in some form will evolve to be useful, if not ubiquitous...
but, smart phones are ubiquitous NOW, but i bet 90-99% of the users are using them for angry birds, etc, and NOT field manuals of machinery, interface to systems, etc...
it is WAY overkill for most of the users doing stupid stuff...
(NOT that there is anything wrong with stupid stuff, but it isn't task/work related that contributes to REAL efficiencies in the workings of the world...)
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Re: "Facebook Effect"
i can't remember if i related this story here: got hit by two vehicles, did the insurance thing, gave them all the accident report info...
*then*, i get a message on my cellyphone, and an email, that said 'Oh, we need more info on the other accident parties, please call, urgent, blah blah blah...'
call the number anxious to make sure nothing is holding up getting my truck repaired, etc; and it is TOTALLY some marketing bullshit trick... when i smoosh button 2, NO, i don't want your retarded local discount card, thinking it would take me to a real claims adjuster, no, it takes me to another sales pitch, 'are you sure you don't want this offer, blah blah blah...', when i smoosh 2, NO again, it says, 'oh, this line is only for people who accept the offer, good bye', and hangs up ON ME...
so, there WAS NO OTHER INFO you bastards really needed ? you were just using me as a marketing sucker ? ? ? fuckers...
so, i sends a nastygram to insurance HQ, and they send an auto-response thanking me for me email, and -oh- 'by the way, we still need critical accident info from you, please call this number...'
yes, it was the same scam number for the same marketing bullshit i was just writing them about...
IF ONLY korporations WERE real people we could put a noose around their korporate necks and hang them until dead, Dead, DEAD ! ! !
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Re: Common Carrier
what this highlights, is how absurd 'The Law' has become: when you have to twist meanings, ignore reality, and slant decisions to ENSURE they are bidness-approved, NOT for the greatest good for the greatest number...
'The Law' has become ALL about ensuring the primacy of korporate rule, NOT what serves us 99%...
otherwise, there would be NO WAY they would not be seen as common carriers...
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long, long ago (plus 75 years), there was a concept known as the 'public good', crazy, isn't it ? ? ?
but we are much more advanceder now, (the Most CIVILIZEDEST Evah!), so we don't need useless stuff like 'public commonwealth' and such, private enterprise is obviously so much more superior in outcome for us rubes...
how did we survive those neo-dark ages ? ? ?
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