i was literally talking to SWMBO about this last night, for *me*, one -OF MANY- actions taken which spell the end of the american experiment in small-dee democracy, was when it comes out that there are secret laws, secret executive signing statements (JUST the idea of 'executive signing statements' *alone* and how they are used, is enough to tell me this isn't *our* gummint, nevermind secret signing statements), secret kill lists, secret no-fly lists, secret detention, secret torture kamps, secret enemies...
that is far too many secrets for a democracy to survive...
the constitution hasn't died a death of a thousand paper cuts, but death by a thousand drones...
send in the drones,
there ought to be drones,
don't bother, they're here...
i will only say this:
our influence as mere citizens is close to zero: THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD marched in unprecedented PRE-WAR protests, the american public was against it by a large margin (in spite of being propagandized up the ass), BUT WE STILL WENT TO WAR...
IT DOESN'T matter what 99% of us lowly citizens 'want', it is what the 1% want: THE ONLY TIME the power elites even pretend to pay attention is when we THREATEN THEM...
it has gotten that far: ONLY revolution -peaceful or armed, i don't really care anymore- that will FORCE our betters to concede ANYTHING...
The Man (tm) doesn't care, 'cause he doesn't have to...
you jest, but i'm betting if you really did provide such a service (and it actually sounds like a good idea), there would be *someone* who would come down on you like a ton of bricks...
i bet...
number one 'qualification': that you agree the current inequitable system is equitable and that nothing needs to change...
voila, you're a judge...
kind of like how juries are automagically stacked for the persecutor and against the defendant: you don't believe in the death penalty, off the jury; believe in jury nullification, off the jury; believe the law is an ass, off the jury...
the people who would stand up against injustices are systematically removed from any consideration, and all you have left are authoritarians who will do whatever the judge/persecution say...
doesn't make it fair, but makes it easier to enforce the system upon all us poor schmucks...
really, tells you the his story of our society when you consider all the elites who set up 'self-policing' situations FOR THEMSELVES; funny us 99% can't get away with 'self-policing'...
sure, you are absolutely correct on one level, BUT, here is the long con i can see happening:
1. emplace NEW! IMPROVED! tld's for no good reason other than a money grab...
2. put control of these new tld's with establishment types who will NOT let in upstarts and competition...
3. make it MANDATORY that "X" industry be on "X" tld to be declared 'safe' and 'trustworthy' by the gummint, etc...
4. and -presto-changeo- all the pesky little mammals that are evolving to challenge the closed shop of crony capitalism are eliminated -or kneecapped- at a single stroke...
5. Big (fill in the blank) wins, li'l peeps lose...
AGAIN
(that's like 5 252 431 times in a row, you'd think we'd win one just by accident every once in a while...)
i'll say this for the millionth time, and i'll probably say it a million more, 'cause there are an infinite supply of moral scolds like wall-eye who simply don't 'get it':
you have the right to NOT be assaulted; you do NOT have the right to NOT be insulted...
being for free speech ABSOLUTELY means you give your worst enemy the freedom to say the most horrific things, OTHERWISE IT IS NOT FREE SPEECH...
ANY fucking 'tard can 'defend' anyone to say shit which nobody disagrees with or is inoffensive, or is immaterial; OBSCENE, DISGUSTING free speech is EXACTLY the type of speech which EVERYONE should support the RIGHT TO EXPRESS...
(NOT that you agree with it, but that you defend their right to say it...)
go climb on an iceberg already, wall-eye, your contribution to society is done and you are simply holding us back...
oh, AND you didn't read the details, AND you are simply saying "well, i don't like what he said, it was disrespectful, he deserves to be suspended/hung from his thumbs/boiled in oil/whatever..."
so thin-skinned you get insulted by others getting insulted ? grow a pair, wall-eye...
bad enough kids hardly have any rights as individuals, doubly bad they take out of school commentary and punish him for it, and triply bad that rebar-up-the-butt douches can't take criticism (whether deserved or not)...
cheese and crackers, SWMBO and her cohorts hear as bad or worse on a daily basis at the school where she teaches; they suspended all the kids for 'mouthing off' (IN SCHOOL TO TEACHERS IN PERSON), they'd have close to zero students left at the end of the year...
(now, don't get me wrong: it is not 'right' that kids do this, but that is REALITY, not wishes and hopes... now, the fact is these are ADULTS (read: a dolts) and PART OF THEIR JOB is to deal with the 'unfair' (and 'fair') abuse CHILDREN -repeat CHILDREN- dole out to them... if they can't deal with that, THEY ARE IN THE WRONG PROFESSION...)
thanks, i was just going to say something like this...
he has been 'covering' the national security beat for decades, it would not be surprising if he was not still an 'asset' of one stripe or another...
(it was bernstein who reported that there were HUNDREDS of mainstream media droids who were direct or indirect assets of 'the company', and some were out-and-out cover jobs for 'real' spooks...)
*AT THE VERY LEAST*, he has become dependent upon the very people he is supposed to be 'investigating', so i have ZERO doubt he is being fed bullshit and lies to spew about Snowden and Greenwald, et al...
of course, the graham family which owns the post has been spooked up for generations; katherine graham has famously said that us 99% do not DESERVE or NEED to know all the skullduggery done in our names, with our money...
'cause -you know- that is the province of elites like her...
nowadays, their mighty media empire is crumbling, but they are rising pheonix like from the ashes to be one of the top educational ripoff companies -kaplan- to take advantage of the testing regimen, etc...
(oh, if you want to know who 'leave no child's behind left unspanked' is meant to benefit, you only have to look at the companies who make tests, etc... THEY are the only ones who benefit from this madness...)
...except the FDA is like nearly ALL gummint agencies who are supposed to OVERSEE and REGULATE the industries they have been captured by...
the revolving/revolting door has blurred the distinction between serving merck/monsanto/citicorps in their boardroom as an employee, and serving them on the FDA/FCC/SEC/etc as a gummint employee...
its called 'regulatory capture', and it essentially describes THE ENTIRE gummint and representatives, who have basically legalized bribery...
2. TOTAL BULLSHIT on the 'oh, only happens oncedest in a blue moon when it is a weally, weally hard request', i'd be willing to bet that there is a majority of requests/responses that do NOT meet their own rules/guidelines...
3. this dead horse bears flogging: chocolate jesus CLAIMED he would run the most transparent administration EVAH ! ! ! and is ABSOLUTELY turning that on its head...
4. as a matter of general principle, FORCING people to file FOIA requests (which will probably NOT get a responsive -if technically fulfilling their rules- answer) is the fascist tale wagging the democracy dog: AS DEFAULT, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE RELEASED UNLESS PROVEN OTHERWISE, instead of the other way around...
5. that is OUR SHIT, EVERYTHING 'our' (sic) gummint does is OUR SHIT, we shouldn't have to jump through hoops to have access to OUR SHIT...
6. you are simply an authoritarian apologist and status quo dickless wormtongued greedtard copymaximalist who is plumping for the 1% and ignoring the 99%...
yes, you have your finger on the nub of the problem:
'our' (sic) kongresskritters are *SUPPOSED* to look out for us and reflect our will, they do not...
'our' (sic) media is *SUPPOSED* to be our proxies, and look out for us, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, but that system is korporate owned, lock, stock, and (gun)barrel...
stupid sheeple still have enough cheezy doodles and sugar water, so they don't pay attention to the lapdog media or the korporate-owned kongresskritters...
let's put all the unemployed to work: stalking EVERY single kongresskritter, judge, and admin official and SHAMING THEM MERCILESSLY...
...and i mean MERCILESSLY: we 99% have been shown no mercy, now let's golden rule'em and see how they like it...
fuckers, and THEY call themselves patriotic americans upholding the law...
john, i would like to share your optimism, BUT the sticking point for me, is that the technology is becoming such that it is *practically* possible for an immoral leader/administration to EMPLACE (STOP flagging real words, you shitty spell check crap!) AND ENFORCE a technological nightmare that will facilitate a locked-down society...
the technology is getting there VERY quickly, AND apparently 'our' (sic) leaders are devolving to that level as well...
color me not optimistic...
(which is why i'll be out on the 4th at a local protest, just gotta print out my guy fawkes mask...)
(dog damn, this spell check is like a DMCA takedown: so many false positives that it is useless for its INTENDED purpose...)
Re: Re: One more reason to tax the HELL out of The Rich.
actually, there are a number of studies (and personal experience) that prove that if/when you get 'rich' (its all relative), that you DO -in fact- become a nasty piece of work: you 'justify' / rationalize your OWN -obviously deserved *snicker*- 'good luck' by thinking what a swell, smart, and saavy person you are (EVEN IF IT IS TOTALLY INHERITED WEALTH); and determine that, well, *of course* all those other shlubs are stupid, and lazy, and -well- they probably smell bad, too... (ie they don't 'deserve' to be rich)
further, psych research has shown that 'rich' people are LESS likely to give to charity/others, AND give a smaller percentage of income than 'poor' people, AND they are far more likely to cheat their fellow nekkid apes (who they don'[t regard as 'fellow nekkid apes', but peons)...
EVERYONE exhibits some level of that behavior when they get relative power/wealth over other nekkid apes...
just nekkid apes justifying their oppression of other nekkid apes... hence the validity of the quote:
Re: Re: Re: One more reason to tax the HELL out of The Rich.
but the weird thing is, okay, he/she/it is a raging lefty in the regard of state/corporate power, but THEN goes off on copyright violations AGAINST these self-same masters of the universe as if he/she/it is on their side !
i don't get it: 99% of the benefits of copymaximalists accrue to korporations, etc, NOT the po' l'il artiste; YET, he/she/it is foaming-at-the-mouth rabid about insisting that enforcing these UNFAIR laws against us 99% for the benefit of the 1% is somehow the right and moral thing to do...
On the post: Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors Agree Not To Use Bogus Copyright Claims To Block Publication Of Official Standards
Re:
how 'bout YOU, cowpoke, do YOU respond to ANY/ALL queries, whether salient or not ? ? ?
we know the answer, don't try your default tactic of lying...
so, assuming your blabbage is not another lie, you are BOTH hypocrites, is what you are saying ? ? ?
i know which 'hypocrite' i will want to hear from...
urine idjit
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
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On the post: EFF Files Massive Lawsuit Over NSA Surveillance: Gun Rights, Civil Liberties Groups, Religious Groups Team Up
Re:
i was literally talking to SWMBO about this last night, for *me*, one -OF MANY- actions taken which spell the end of the american experiment in small-dee democracy, was when it comes out that there are secret laws, secret executive signing statements (JUST the idea of 'executive signing statements' *alone* and how they are used, is enough to tell me this isn't *our* gummint, nevermind secret signing statements), secret kill lists, secret no-fly lists, secret detention, secret torture kamps, secret enemies...
that is far too many secrets for a democracy to survive...
the constitution hasn't died a death of a thousand paper cuts, but death by a thousand drones...
send in the drones,
there ought to be drones,
don't bother, they're here...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: The Public Domain: Now Available For Only $165 An Hour!*
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
our influence as mere citizens is close to zero: THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD marched in unprecedented PRE-WAR protests, the american public was against it by a large margin (in spite of being propagandized up the ass), BUT WE STILL WENT TO WAR...
IT DOESN'T matter what 99% of us lowly citizens 'want', it is what the 1% want: THE ONLY TIME the power elites even pretend to pay attention is when we THREATEN THEM...
it has gotten that far: ONLY revolution -peaceful or armed, i don't really care anymore- that will FORCE our betters to concede ANYTHING...
The Man (tm) doesn't care, 'cause he doesn't have to...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: The Public Domain: Now Available For Only $165 An Hour!*
Re: That's over a 10% savings !
i bet...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
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On the post: Site Told To Pay $338k Because Of Someone Else's Comments
Re:
i like it ! ! !
On the post: Site Told To Pay $338k Because Of Someone Else's Comments
Re: Re:
voila, you're a judge...
kind of like how juries are automagically stacked for the persecutor and against the defendant: you don't believe in the death penalty, off the jury; believe in jury nullification, off the jury; believe the law is an ass, off the jury...
the people who would stand up against injustices are systematically removed from any consideration, and all you have left are authoritarians who will do whatever the judge/persecution say...
doesn't make it fair, but makes it easier to enforce the system upon all us poor schmucks...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: John Steele Shows Up In Judge Wright's Court; Bet He Wishes He Hadn't
Re: Tell me why?
if it weren't tragic, it would be funny...
really, tells you the his story of our society when you consider all the elites who set up 'self-policing' situations FOR THEMSELVES; funny us 99% can't get away with 'self-policing'...
funny, that...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Stopping Big Pharma From Using New .pharmacy Domain To Block Legal Pharmacies They Don't Like
Re:
1. emplace NEW! IMPROVED! tld's for no good reason other than a money grab...
2. put control of these new tld's with establishment types who will NOT let in upstarts and competition...
3. make it MANDATORY that "X" industry be on "X" tld to be declared 'safe' and 'trustworthy' by the gummint, etc...
4. and -presto-changeo- all the pesky little mammals that are evolving to challenge the closed shop of crony capitalism are eliminated -or kneecapped- at a single stroke...
5. Big (fill in the blank) wins, li'l peeps lose...
AGAIN
(that's like 5 252 431 times in a row, you'd think we'd win one just by accident every once in a while...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: 'Cyberbullied' School Administration May Have Violated Student's First Amendment Rights By Suspending Him
Re: Re: Re: Respect and school
you have the right to NOT be assaulted; you do NOT have the right to NOT be insulted...
being for free speech ABSOLUTELY means you give your worst enemy the freedom to say the most horrific things, OTHERWISE IT IS NOT FREE SPEECH...
ANY fucking 'tard can 'defend' anyone to say shit which nobody disagrees with or is inoffensive, or is immaterial; OBSCENE, DISGUSTING free speech is EXACTLY the type of speech which EVERYONE should support the RIGHT TO EXPRESS...
(NOT that you agree with it, but that you defend their right to say it...)
go climb on an iceberg already, wall-eye, your contribution to society is done and you are simply holding us back...
oh, AND you didn't read the details, AND you are simply saying "well, i don't like what he said, it was disrespectful, he deserves to be suspended/hung from his thumbs/boiled in oil/whatever..."
so thin-skinned you get insulted by others getting insulted ? grow a pair, wall-eye...
bad enough kids hardly have any rights as individuals, doubly bad they take out of school commentary and punish him for it, and triply bad that rebar-up-the-butt douches can't take criticism (whether deserved or not)...
cheese and crackers, SWMBO and her cohorts hear as bad or worse on a daily basis at the school where she teaches; they suspended all the kids for 'mouthing off' (IN SCHOOL TO TEACHERS IN PERSON), they'd have close to zero students left at the end of the year...
(now, don't get me wrong: it is not 'right' that kids do this, but that is REALITY, not wishes and hopes... now, the fact is these are ADULTS (read: a dolts) and PART OF THEIR JOB is to deal with the 'unfair' (and 'fair') abuse CHILDREN -repeat CHILDREN- dole out to them... if they can't deal with that, THEY ARE IN THE WRONG PROFESSION...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: John Steele Keeps Playing Games With Judge Wright
ain't 'self-policing' fun ? ? ?
ANY organization or institution which operates secretly WILL become corrupted...
it is only a matter of when, not if...
ANY 'self-policing' profession WILL be corrupted; again, not if, but when...
doesn't take a fucking rocket scientist to think that one through...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Washington Post Makes Bizarre, Factually Incorrect Claims About Glenn Greenwald, Can't Figure Out How To Update
Re: Re: Where was Pincus in 1991?
he has been 'covering' the national security beat for decades, it would not be surprising if he was not still an 'asset' of one stripe or another...
(it was bernstein who reported that there were HUNDREDS of mainstream media droids who were direct or indirect assets of 'the company', and some were out-and-out cover jobs for 'real' spooks...)
*AT THE VERY LEAST*, he has become dependent upon the very people he is supposed to be 'investigating', so i have ZERO doubt he is being fed bullshit and lies to spew about Snowden and Greenwald, et al...
of course, the graham family which owns the post has been spooked up for generations; katherine graham has famously said that us 99% do not DESERVE or NEED to know all the skullduggery done in our names, with our money...
'cause -you know- that is the province of elites like her...
nowadays, their mighty media empire is crumbling, but they are rising pheonix like from the ashes to be one of the top educational ripoff companies -kaplan- to take advantage of the testing regimen, etc...
(oh, if you want to know who 'leave no child's behind left unspanked' is meant to benefit, you only have to look at the companies who make tests, etc... THEY are the only ones who benefit from this madness...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Merck 'Evergreens' Off-Patent Lipitor By Creating Combination Drug With No Additional Benefit
Re: Re:
the revolving/revolting door has blurred the distinction between serving merck/monsanto/citicorps in their boardroom as an employee, and serving them on the FDA/FCC/SEC/etc as a gummint employee...
its called 'regulatory capture', and it essentially describes THE ENTIRE gummint and representatives, who have basically legalized bribery...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Judge Tells Homeland Security To Shut Up And Release Aaron Swartz's File
Re: Re: Re:
2. TOTAL BULLSHIT on the 'oh, only happens oncedest in a blue moon when it is a weally, weally hard request', i'd be willing to bet that there is a majority of requests/responses that do NOT meet their own rules/guidelines...
3. this dead horse bears flogging: chocolate jesus CLAIMED he would run the most transparent administration EVAH ! ! ! and is ABSOLUTELY turning that on its head...
4. as a matter of general principle, FORCING people to file FOIA requests (which will probably NOT get a responsive -if technically fulfilling their rules- answer) is the fascist tale wagging the democracy dog: AS DEFAULT, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE RELEASED UNLESS PROVEN OTHERWISE, instead of the other way around...
5. that is OUR SHIT, EVERYTHING 'our' (sic) gummint does is OUR SHIT, we shouldn't have to jump through hoops to have access to OUR SHIT...
6. you are simply an authoritarian apologist and status quo dickless wormtongued greedtard copymaximalist who is plumping for the 1% and ignoring the 99%...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Court Skeptical That LA Cops Can Just Look At Any Motel Guest Record Without A Warrant
Re:
*not* that we have not been on the road to heartless Empire for some time, but it sure is picking up speed...
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Re: Re: Re:
'our' (sic) kongresskritters are *SUPPOSED* to look out for us and reflect our will, they do not...
'our' (sic) media is *SUPPOSED* to be our proxies, and look out for us, comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, but that system is korporate owned, lock, stock, and (gun)barrel...
stupid sheeple still have enough cheezy doodles and sugar water, so they don't pay attention to the lapdog media or the korporate-owned kongresskritters...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: FISA Court Judges Aren't Happy That The Public Is Upset Secret Court Issuing Secret Rulings Allowing NSA To Spy On Them
Re: FISA Court Judges.
let's put all the unemployed to work: stalking EVERY single kongresskritter, judge, and admin official and SHAMING THEM MERCILESSLY...
...and i mean MERCILESSLY: we 99% have been shown no mercy, now let's golden rule'em and see how they like it...
fuckers, and THEY call themselves patriotic americans upholding the law...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: How Three Decades Of Conservative Chief Justices Turned The FISA Court Into A Rubber Stamp
Re: Re: Re: Fisa court
the technology is getting there VERY quickly, AND apparently 'our' (sic) leaders are devolving to that level as well...
color me not optimistic...
(which is why i'll be out on the 4th at a local protest, just gotta print out my guy fawkes mask...)
(dog damn, this spell check is like a DMCA takedown: so many false positives that it is useless for its INTENDED purpose...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Mayor Bloomberg Opens Own Wallet To Erect Protective Wall Of Money Around His Beloved Stop And Frisk Program
Re: Re: One more reason to tax the HELL out of The Rich.
further, psych research has shown that 'rich' people are LESS likely to give to charity/others, AND give a smaller percentage of income than 'poor' people, AND they are far more likely to cheat their fellow nekkid apes (who they don'[t regard as 'fellow nekkid apes', but peons)...
EVERYONE exhibits some level of that behavior when they get relative power/wealth over other nekkid apes...
just nekkid apes justifying their oppression of other nekkid apes... hence the validity of the quote:
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Mayor Bloomberg Opens Own Wallet To Erect Protective Wall Of Money Around His Beloved Stop And Frisk Program
Re: Re: Re: One more reason to tax the HELL out of The Rich.
i don't get it: 99% of the benefits of copymaximalists accrue to korporations, etc, NOT the po' l'il artiste; YET, he/she/it is foaming-at-the-mouth rabid about insisting that enforcing these UNFAIR laws against us 99% for the benefit of the 1% is somehow the right and moral thing to do...
funny guy/gal/hermaphrodite
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: How The Indian Government's 'Central Monitoring System' Makes The NSA Look Like A Paragon Of Restraint
Re:
MOTHERFUCKING BRAHMAS, BITCHEZ ! ! !
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