fuckers, THEIR WHOLE AGENDA is to 'mislead the amerikan people', and it is ONLY because of the mannings/snowdens/kiriakous/browns/etc that we have the slightest of clues what evil shit they are up to...
dog damn, NOW i know why those spooky pricks NEVER like anyone to know who their work for ('cause it sure AIN'T the american people they work for): 'cause they'd get the shit beat out of them EVERY DAMN DAY someone found out what the scumbags were up to...
(...and that would be the patriotic and RIGHT thing to do!)
maybe that should tell them something, but it won't... none so blind...
(setting aside the bullshit 'art' world of collectors, museums, and other con/fraud artists)
contrary to their assertion: OF COURSE i am MORE willing to pay more for a new artist in several ways...
i have bought music CD's that cost more than 'normal' ones, 'cause they were a small time group that didn't have normal distribution methods, such that i *couldn't* buy it off amazon or iturds, whatever... (in the one case, indigenous group from south america)
further, realize that there are -*THEORETICALLY*- economies of scale and mass manufacturer such that a CD from BigMusicCo is cheaper than one from Local Band burning a couple dozen at a time, etc...
same thing with their tee shirts, etc (and same goes for TechDirt and other sites i may like): i can get a dog damn decent tee shirt for 5-10 bucks at sweatshopmart; BUT, i'll pay 20-25+ for ones which support bands/sites/issues that i care about...
similarly for other 'arty'/artisanal products SWMBO/i buy: bath soap we could get for 50 cents a bar at the grocery store, we pay $5 a bar for handmade, naturally scented, shea butter, blah blah blah ones...
in short: we are 'fans', we gladly pay the difference for real and perceived benefits; and part of that is, we GLADLY support local artisans at a premium cost over transnational korporations... etc etc etc their premise is bassackwards to start with, the 'reasoning' that follows, is therefore fatally flawed...
*sigh* when i commute to work i am forced to estimate that approx 90% of the driving public are -in fact and in deed- fucking retarded... welcome to idiocracy...
thank you, he, chelsea manning, john kiriakou, browning, and the other gentlemen who i am ashamed to say i don't remember his name off the top of my head, are the ONLY heroes i have left in contemporary society...
the likes of feinstein, alexander, obama, etc ? ? ? at best, evil minions of doom, at worst, traitors to the constitution and America... i despise them all for what they are doing to our country...
but we live in bizarro world, now, don't we ? orwellian doublespeak HAS become the new normal... up is down, hot is cold, imprisoned is free (or is it arbeit macht frei?), and traitor is patriot...
prezactly... i'm so sick of our entitled media overlords i'd just as soon throw the teevee OUT the fucking door...
i'm married, so i'm not in charge, so the teevee stays... (SWMBO got sick of it too, and we *briefly* cut the cord, but she got withdrawal shakes, so she got dish back... only month-to-month, though, no contract horseshit)
while -yes- there are gems to be found on the teevee, for the most part, it is 90 out of 100 channels of crap that i HAVE TO PAY FOR to get the 10 i watch 90%+ of the time...
again, while i can find some 'real' news sources like democracy now, some rt, etc; 90% of the news on teevee is TOTAL shit... (partly because it is endless faux-shocked horseshit, but mostly because of what they DON'T talk about, which is all the important stuff...)
gee, you got korporate-owned media whose sole purpose is to reinforce the status quo and profit from that, and we get media whose sole purpose is to reinforce the status quo... that's surprising !
? what hole have you been hiding in the last couple decades ? ? ? The They (tm) WILL take your shit without ANY explanation, receipt, or other legal justification, PERIOD...
are you dense ? ? ?
JUST LIKE the story here the other day, about donut-eaters essentially saying "Give up your right to unreasonable search/seizure, or we will kill your dogs and FUCK YOU UP ROYALLY!"...
WHAT REAL "CHOICE" does a powerless citizen have ? what are they going to do, call the police ? ? ? bwa ha HA HA HAAAAAAA
1. um, you recall some recent NSA revelations of how they and their brit counterparts were spying on various trade groups, meetings, participants, etc ? um, you *really* think that was to stop terrorism ? or is it approximately infinitely more likely that it was for the benefit of unka sugar's trade 'negotiators'/enforcers ?
2. further, beyond mere trade-strategy intercepts, wiretapping, etc; i would bet dollars to donut-holes that -as per bidness as usual- salacious blackmail info was funneled to the CIA, and even less savory characters than they... how much you wanna bet *some* trade delegates had a choice of having 'X' revealed about them, *or*, they take home a big envelope of cash, and vote for unka sugar ? ? ?
3. *beyond* that, is the fact -as per 'confessions of an economic hitman'- unka sugar rarely has to invoke crude physical threats, messy blackmail, etc: they simply bribe the right people (you know, making them an offer they can't refuse, but *NOTHING* like the real -you know- criminal mafia!), and everything goes as Empire planned...
ok, just perused the article, and i CAN NOT stop thinking about the brilliant iconography of the sine wave stitching human beans together !
talk about a concise and universal graphic definition of 'culture', wow ! !
(i was going to self-censor on a micro-scale, and say 'shared culture'; but -to your point- that is redundant: that which is not shared, can NOT be part of our culture; that which is shared, will thrive (or fail) based on a varied mix of usefulness, novelty, and beauty, as valued by all the sheeples...)
brilliantly done, and of course the whole thing looks terrific... wow ! ! !
(would have appreciated a comment on what 'pecha kucha' is (besides this org); now i gotta goog or wiki... and, yes, i am a lazy sort, thank you very much...)
1. shows 6 providers available for my address BWA HA HAAAA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAH HAAAAAH HAAAAA
I KNOW that is a LIE for all kinds of reasons: i have called the local cox cable, they have had a map on THEIR website which has shown them servicing a mile or more PAST me for DECADES (repeat DECADES), but they do NOT serve this area...
2. similarly, they show cox as having 25-50 megs, BUT that is ONLY at a VERY SMALL SPECIFIC part of 'downtown', over 15 miles away, everyone else is only 'up to 10'...
3. further i CAN NOT get service from ANYONE ELSE, because whenever i call ANYONE, they tell me they have 'non-compete' agreements with my shit ISP... in fact, often, you will be automatically routed back to my ISP when i enter my zip code...
4. a joke indeed, but we are the butt...
5. lastly, the broadband map had ZERO way to contact them to tell them they are full of shit; they *supposedly* had some icon to smoosh to 'report' yes/no on the providers, but it WAS NOT on the page as they said...
as an aside, i think the only reason we have fairly consistent 3 megs, is because i am a 'samknows' sample...
ISP's/telcos are scum... ...oh, AND the idiot politicians who sold us down the river, fuckers...
worse still: you won't KNOW sauron/us has turned his evil eye on you; you won't know what secret law you have traduced; you won't know who is accusing you; you won't know who is judging you; you won't know you've been convicted, and you won't know you've been disappeared until you wake up from the thorazine, they take the mask off, and you find yourself a non-person without a country, convicted of unknown krimes, and thrown into an secret black site to rot to death...
*this* is America ? ? ? no, we're amerika, now, and kafka is our guidebook...
1. your assertion requires several premises not in evidence: A. that every patient subject to malpractice knows they have been mistreated; this goes double for the cadavers; B. i *SUSPECT* my mother did not get A+ care during her last days; but i have no 'evidence' (other than my own witnessing her aspirating, after which i was escorted out); C. EVEN IF i did have strong suspicions *something* was wrong, WTF do i do ? ? ? start threatening doktors until one breaks ranks ? ? ? D. besides the fact that there are many grey areas where the distinction from merely average performance/bad luck, goes over the line into real malpractice... E. as well as ignoring that the medical profession is another of those privileged jobs where they 'self-police'... (meaning, NO EFFECTIVE 'policing')
2. actually, doktors are NOT some of the most 'highly regulated', you might try hairdressers, for one... (aside: did you know there is no 'legal' reason, ANY GP (repeat ANY GP) can't do brain surgery in their suburban office ? there are many *insurance*/certification reasons WHY they almost never do so (aside from the practical), but there are no 'legal' reasons they can't do ANY operation, ANY where they feel like...)
3. there is no mention that your brilliant doktors do NOT engage in even cursory DNA screening unless you shell out beaucoup bucks... AT LEAST this provides a useful screening process -no matter how inaccurate- that the doktors DO NOT...
4. really ? they are going to take a drugstore-level DNA test, and immediately upon getting a false positive they have -say- parkinson's disease, they instantaneously kill themselves ? ? ? yeah, right... ...or, they 'self-medicate' based on that 'diagnosis' ? ? ? sure, that seems likely...
(not saying it wouldn't happen, but by that 'logic', no one should sell razor knives, 'cause someone could operate on themselves...)
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fuckers, THEIR WHOLE AGENDA is to 'mislead the amerikan people', and it is ONLY because of the mannings/snowdens/kiriakous/browns/etc that we have the slightest of clues what evil shit they are up to...
dog damn, NOW i know why those spooky pricks NEVER like anyone to know who their work for ('cause it sure AIN'T the american people they work for): 'cause they'd get the shit beat out of them EVERY DAMN DAY someone found out what the scumbags were up to...
(...and that would be the patriotic and RIGHT thing to do!)
maybe that should tell them something, but it won't...
none so blind...
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disagree with premise in this regard:
contrary to their assertion: OF COURSE i am MORE willing to pay more for a new artist in several ways...
i have bought music CD's that cost more than 'normal' ones, 'cause they were a small time group that didn't have normal distribution methods, such that i *couldn't* buy it off amazon or iturds, whatever... (in the one case, indigenous group from south america)
further, realize that there are -*THEORETICALLY*- economies of scale and mass manufacturer such that a CD from BigMusicCo is cheaper than one from Local Band burning a couple dozen at a time, etc...
same thing with their tee shirts, etc (and same goes for TechDirt and other sites i may like): i can get a dog damn decent tee shirt for 5-10 bucks at sweatshopmart; BUT, i'll pay 20-25+ for ones which support bands/sites/issues that i care about...
similarly for other 'arty'/artisanal products SWMBO/i buy: bath soap we could get for 50 cents a bar at the grocery store, we pay $5 a bar for handmade, naturally scented, shea butter, blah blah blah ones...
in short: we are 'fans', we gladly pay the difference for real and perceived benefits; and part of that is, we GLADLY support local artisans at a premium cost over transnational korporations...
etc
etc
etc
their premise is bassackwards to start with, the 'reasoning' that follows, is therefore fatally flawed...
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when i commute to work i am forced to estimate that approx 90% of the driving public are -in fact and in deed- fucking retarded...
welcome to idiocracy...
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On the post: Some NSA Officials Favor Giving Snowden Limited Amnesty For All The Wrong Reasons
Re: No they shouldn't
the likes of feinstein, alexander, obama, etc ? ? ?
at best, evil minions of doom, at worst, traitors to the constitution and America... i despise them all for what they are doing to our country...
but we live in bizarro world, now, don't we ? orwellian doublespeak HAS become the new normal... up is down, hot is cold, imprisoned is free (or is it arbeit macht frei?), and traitor is patriot...
i weep for our country, i mourn for our planet...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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i'm so sick of our entitled media overlords i'd just as soon throw the teevee OUT the fucking door...
i'm married, so i'm not in charge, so the teevee stays...
(SWMBO got sick of it too, and we *briefly* cut the cord, but she got withdrawal shakes, so she got dish back... only month-to-month, though, no contract horseshit)
while -yes- there are gems to be found on the teevee, for the most part, it is 90 out of 100 channels of crap that i HAVE TO PAY FOR to get the 10 i watch 90%+ of the time...
again, while i can find some 'real' news sources like democracy now, some rt, etc; 90% of the news on teevee is TOTAL shit... (partly because it is endless faux-shocked horseshit, but mostly because of what they DON'T talk about, which is all the important stuff...)
gee, you got korporate-owned media whose sole purpose is to reinforce the status quo and profit from that, and we get media whose sole purpose is to reinforce the status quo...
that's surprising !
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last for-freaking-ever...
hemp for victory!
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Better response....
The They (tm) WILL take your shit without ANY explanation, receipt, or other legal justification, PERIOD...
are you dense ? ? ?
JUST LIKE the story here the other day, about donut-eaters essentially saying "Give up your right to unreasonable search/seizure, or we will kill your dogs and FUCK YOU UP ROYALLY!"...
WHAT REAL "CHOICE" does a powerless citizen have ?
what are they going to do, call the police ? ? ?
bwa ha HA HA HAAAAAAA
we are so screwed...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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ftfy
bad kops, bad kops
waddaya gonna do,
waddaya gonna do
when bad kops
come for you ?
...
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um, you *really* think that was to stop terrorism ?
or is it approximately infinitely more likely that it was for the benefit of unka sugar's trade 'negotiators'/enforcers ?
2. further, beyond mere trade-strategy intercepts, wiretapping, etc; i would bet dollars to donut-holes that -as per bidness as usual- salacious blackmail info was funneled to the CIA, and even less savory characters than they...
how much you wanna bet *some* trade delegates had a choice of having 'X' revealed about them, *or*, they take home a big envelope of cash, and vote for unka sugar ? ? ?
3. *beyond* that, is the fact -as per 'confessions of an economic hitman'- unka sugar rarely has to invoke crude physical threats, messy blackmail, etc: they simply bribe the right people (you know, making them an offer they can't refuse, but *NOTHING* like the real -you know- criminal mafia!), and everything goes as Empire planned...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Make Art Not Law
wow oh wow oh wow...
talk about a concise and universal graphic definition of 'culture', wow ! !
(i was going to self-censor on a micro-scale, and say 'shared culture'; but -to your point- that is redundant: that which is not shared, can NOT be part of our culture; that which is shared, will thrive (or fail) based on a varied mix of usefulness, novelty, and beauty, as valued by all the sheeples...)
brilliantly done, and of course the whole thing looks terrific... wow ! ! !
(would have appreciated a comment on what 'pecha kucha' is (besides this org); now i gotta goog or wiki... and, yes, i am a lazy sort, thank you very much...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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only one reason i'm posting...
felt compelled to make it 42...
thanks for all the fish ! ! !
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nearly $500k reported ? ? ?
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hee hee hee
On the post: Anti-Net Neutrality Advocates Back To Making Bogus Arguments
broadband map is definitely a joke...
BWA HA HAAAA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAH HAAAAAH HAAAAA
I KNOW that is a LIE for all kinds of reasons: i have called the local cox cable, they have had a map on THEIR website which has shown them servicing a mile or more PAST me for DECADES (repeat DECADES), but they do NOT serve this area...
2. similarly, they show cox as having 25-50 megs, BUT that is ONLY at a VERY SMALL SPECIFIC part of 'downtown', over 15 miles away, everyone else is only 'up to 10'...
3. further i CAN NOT get service from ANYONE ELSE, because whenever i call ANYONE, they tell me they have 'non-compete' agreements with my shit ISP... in fact, often, you will be automatically routed back to my ISP when i enter my zip code...
4. a joke indeed, but we are the butt...
5. lastly, the broadband map had ZERO way to contact them to tell them they are full of shit; they *supposedly* had some icon to smoosh to 'report' yes/no on the providers, but it WAS NOT on the page as they said...
as an aside, i think the only reason we have fairly consistent 3 megs, is because i am a 'samknows' sample...
ISP's/telcos are scum...
...oh, AND the idiot politicians who sold us down the river, fuckers...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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*this* is America ? ? ?
no, we're amerika, now, and kafka is our guidebook...
"When in the course of human events..."
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but the -really- horrific point, is that what you say is all too true...
reason #15408348230 'our' (sic) democracy is broken...
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B. i *SUSPECT* my mother did not get A+ care during her last days; but i have no 'evidence' (other than my own witnessing her aspirating, after which i was escorted out);
C. EVEN IF i did have strong suspicions *something* was wrong, WTF do i do ? ? ? start threatening doktors until one breaks ranks ? ? ?
D. besides the fact that there are many grey areas where the distinction from merely average performance/bad luck, goes over the line into real malpractice...
E. as well as ignoring that the medical profession is another of those privileged jobs where they 'self-police'...
(meaning, NO EFFECTIVE 'policing')
2. actually, doktors are NOT some of the most 'highly regulated', you might try hairdressers, for one...
(aside: did you know there is no 'legal' reason, ANY GP (repeat ANY GP) can't do brain surgery in their suburban office ? there are many *insurance*/certification reasons WHY they almost never do so (aside from the practical), but there are no 'legal' reasons they can't do ANY operation, ANY where they feel like...)
3. there is no mention that your brilliant doktors do NOT engage in even cursory DNA screening unless you shell out beaucoup bucks... AT LEAST this provides a useful screening process -no matter how inaccurate- that the doktors DO NOT...
4. really ? they are going to take a drugstore-level DNA test, and immediately upon getting a false positive they have -say- parkinson's disease, they instantaneously kill themselves ? ? ?
yeah, right...
...or, they 'self-medicate' based on that 'diagnosis' ? ? ?
sure, that seems likely...
(not saying it wouldn't happen, but by that 'logic', no one should sell razor knives, 'cause someone could operate on themselves...)
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8^)
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