Re: Once again the two-teired caste system reveals itself.
I can't imagine a civilian who hired Chapa to borrow the truck to make a delivery (that ultimately turned out badly) would be let off so scott free.
It's the worst sort of hypocrisy. Whatever supposed evils there are in illicit drugs, they don't come anywhere near crapfests like the Drug War. Vast sums of taxpayers' money spent on filling prisons, ruining lives, militarizing police and undermining the justice system, perpetuating institutionalized racism, corrupting police, prosecutors, judges, and politicians, all in countless pointless efforts to save society from consensual acts!
We already went through this with Prohibition, yet we're doing it again. That time, we made the Mafia rich. This time, we're making the Zetas rich, and exporting this insanity to countries on other continents. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
How about a Special 500 list of all of corrupted officials in government that cause these sorts of problems?
That's about 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of them.
Yes, better to go with listing the exceptions, those not (yet?) determined to be corrupt and have not caused these sort of problems, because they're apparently doing the things they were elected to do.
i) Elizabeth Warren ii) Bernie Sanders (?) iii) He who smacked down the Intel committee asking for magical encryption (whose name escapes me). iv) ?
WASHINGTON — When President Obama defends the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a far-reaching agreement to tear down trade barriers between the United States and 11 other nations, he often argues it would cure the ills inflicted on American workers by trade pacts of the past, particularly the North American Free Trade Agreement.
How many dissenting voices do they need to hear before they begin to question their assumptions? Or (rhetorical), is the NYT just handling the marketing for the administration?
I thought it put Friedman's dumbth nicely into perspective.
Oh, come on! This's a vast improvement over earlier efforts. They're using blank white boxes now, saving you a fortune on black ink. I guess those replacement printer cartridges are getting really expensive.
I suppose people might be more inclined to listen to the EFF and you if it wasn't so obvious Google was talking when your lips move.
Don't I wish? I've even given you a funny vote for that. Somebody actually pointed G. at me in the '90s, but I guess they weren't interested. Meh.
I use Youtube from time to time. That's our only connection, other than broad philosophical issues. I don't use any of their other toys. I'm allergic to most advertising and marketing, but I've nothing much else against them, and I do respect some things they do. Showing monopolist moochers how capitalism is supposed to work is one of them.
I do wish they'd tell the NSA to go piss up a rope, but expecting miracles of that sort in 21st Century USA is a pipe dream.
That's what she told me they were getting, for ADHD. This same silly twit was trying to convince me I was ADHD. She just recently retired after thirty years of teaching grade school ("Elementary" here in Canada).
I've pretty much disowned her and hope never to see her again. Ditto for my sociopath brother. What a family. It's good to be out of it.
The land of the free, home of the brave, exporting economic tyranny and attacking scholastic achievement.
I think a few countries out there (or their citizens and consumers at least) would love to see some regime change exported to the US, as soon as possible. I'm also sure that Russia is giggling its head off at this pathetic attempt at "Black Humor", one of their acknowledged specialties.
It takes an exceptional level of dumbth to keep pushing this farce after so many years, and a few countries' citizens should be ashamed for electing the idiots/toadies who fall for it, or let them get away with it. "Baaaaaaaa!"
There's another one. You can't even protect yourself from this happening. It's a clandestine op so asking your prospective employee before hand whether he's a CI isn't going to elicit the truth. He can't tell you. Because drugs.
All hail our noble Drug War warriors. Your tax dollars at work, and way more of them than either you or the IRS thought were involved. Everybody makes mistakes, but to *really* screw up takes govt.
That's what my sister (spit!) told me was the reason why she was dosing her kids with Talwin & Ritalin. My b-in-law and I thought they might be just as well off smoking weed. They appeared to have the same effect as far as we could tell.
I'm no expert, but it's only pirates that want fast speeds. Clearly, if you go over the cap and want fast speeds, you must be downloading TV and movies illegally.
Classic paranoid delusional thinking. "Those guys in that huddle down on the field must be conspiring against me!"
A guy quoted on Ars after getting a letter from his ISP explained he's doing SETIatHome processing.
Go talk to your psychologist. You need your meds dialed up.
Re: Re: The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
However there are many exhortations to love your enemies in the new testament. You won't find anything similar in the Koran.
"Love", I don't know, however the Koran does say it's evil to kill women, children, and the elderly, and even an enemy soldier who's laid down his arms. I've been told later interpretations (Hadith?) have over-ridden this admonishment, but I never bothered to go further into it to understand the details.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Christians are as bad and how about screw you relgious nutjobs
It is maybe not surprising if people lash out when they are under threat - but it is not at the instigation of the Bible.
You're not even trying. That's just the first hit in ixquick for "genocide bible". Hit #2:
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain. -- Deuteronomy 2:34
The first hit has a nice discussion as to why it's crap to think "Ah, that's just the Old Testament."
Well, from one reformed (? :-) pedant to another pedant, I'd say a good carpenter doesn't use bad tools. He/she throws them away. Not only do they do a lousy job, but they're dangerous to use. POS screwdriver has lost its edge and keeps on slipping off and stabbing you? Better to use a good hammer and the right nail instead, or borrow a decent screwdriver in the meantime; one that's not threatening to either ruin the job or kill somebody.
Re: Re: OKAY, we get it: AT&T, Comcast, Verizon BAD -- Google good.
The point isn't the "Google is good", the point is that when real competition enters a market, the historically awful behavior of the old-guard ISPs improves a lot.
"Comcast had little interest in upgrading its Chattanooga network when it faced no real competition. "I think we would have welcomed the incumbents to come into town and to have done some of this work, but frankly no one was interested in doing it," EPB communications VP Danna Bailey told Ars long before Comcast announced its fiber intentions."
Re: Re: Re: OKAY, we get it: AT&T, Comcast, Verizon BAD -- Google good.
So in the end, nothing has changed.
I believe it's changed a lot. It's put paid to all the others' protestations of, "You're just not being realistic. This is the best that can be done, and at the best price that it can be done." Guess what, Google, even as a sideline to what it does as its core business blows them out of the water and has people all over the country praying Google fibre will come to their town too. It's also dragged the incumbents grudgingly into upping their game, *in the places Google's rolled it out*. Well, why aren't they now rolling it out everywhere now that they've shown how empty were their earlier protestations?
Because they don't have to as long as Google's not done it everywhere. They're happy to just rake in the bucks in their captive markets providing overly expensive lousy service and ignoring consumer complaints knowing their customers have little choice but to accept it or move.
This's pretty insulting when taxpayer's money has gone to subsidizing improvements which the ISPs have avoided implementing, because the FCC prior to Wheeler's let them get away with it.
These big ISPs are lucky there aren't mobs of pitchfork wielding consumers and taxpayers storming their boardrooms demanding heads for the guillotines.
Those who don't embrace the future, are doomed to live, and die, in the past.
This sort of thing (Twitter, Facebook, social networking, cloud) is not the future I wish to embrace. I think they're doing it wrong, and they're living in the past; a regurgitated and reformed past to give the appearance of a future worth having. I think we can do better than this if we refuse to settle for less than what we could, and should, have.
On the other hand, I'm also currently mildly addicted to the novels of Conn Igguldson and M. C. Scott, still attempting to wrap my mind around Imperial Rome, so what do I know?
It would have been more honest if you'd just admitted you're hysterically opposed to illicit drugs, up to and including you'd feel perfectly justified in going to pretty much *any* lengths to stop anyone from having any access to them or using them in any way, shape, or form and you see nothing wrong with tossing a specific form of business or consumer into jail because the product in question is "illicit drugs." Admit it.
Certain religions used to believe the same things about other religions, and some still do.
So, you're a wannabe petty tyrant who believes himself correct and to hell with anyone who doesn't agree, and you believe guns kill people, not people kill people.
Sad. No, I don't care to hear any sob stories about relatives or friends who managed to off themselves via illicit drugs. That's irrelevant to what I'm complaining about.
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Re: Once again the two-teired caste system reveals itself.
It's the worst sort of hypocrisy. Whatever supposed evils there are in illicit drugs, they don't come anywhere near crapfests like the Drug War. Vast sums of taxpayers' money spent on filling prisons, ruining lives, militarizing police and undermining the justice system, perpetuating institutionalized racism, corrupting police, prosecutors, judges, and politicians, all in countless pointless efforts to save society from consensual acts!
We already went through this with Prohibition, yet we're doing it again. That time, we made the Mafia rich. This time, we're making the Zetas rich, and exporting this insanity to countries on other continents. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
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Re: Re: Another list
Yes, better to go with listing the exceptions, those not (yet?) determined to be corrupt and have not caused these sort of problems, because they're apparently doing the things they were elected to do.
i) Elizabeth Warren
ii) Bernie Sanders (?)
iii) He who smacked down the Intel committee asking for magical encryption (whose name escapes me).
iv) ?
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Friedman's OpEd was just the opening salvo.
How many dissenting voices do they need to hear before they begin to question their assumptions? Or (rhetorical), is the NYT just handling the marketing for the administration?
I thought it put Friedman's dumbth nicely into perspective.
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Don't I wish? I've even given you a funny vote for that. Somebody actually pointed G. at me in the '90s, but I guess they weren't interested. Meh.
I use Youtube from time to time. That's our only connection, other than broad philosophical issues. I don't use any of their other toys. I'm allergic to most advertising and marketing, but I've nothing much else against them, and I do respect some things they do. Showing monopolist moochers how capitalism is supposed to work is one of them.
I do wish they'd tell the NSA to go piss up a rope, but expecting miracles of that sort in 21st Century USA is a pipe dream.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Just a thought
I've pretty much disowned her and hope never to see her again. Ditto for my sociopath brother. What a family. It's good to be out of it.
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The land of the free, home of the brave, exporting economic tyranny and attacking scholastic achievement.
It takes an exceptional level of dumbth to keep pushing this farce after so many years, and a few countries' citizens should be ashamed for electing the idiots/toadies who fall for it, or let them get away with it. "Baaaaaaaa!"
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All hail our noble Drug War warriors. Your tax dollars at work, and way more of them than either you or the IRS thought were involved. Everybody makes mistakes, but to *really* screw up takes govt.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Just a thought
That's what my sister (spit!) told me was the reason why she was dosing her kids with Talwin & Ritalin. My b-in-law and I thought they might be just as well off smoking weed. They appeared to have the same effect as far as we could tell.
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Re: Re: Re: Just a thought
Classic paranoid delusional thinking. "Those guys in that huddle down on the field must be conspiring against me!"
A guy quoted on Ars after getting a letter from his ISP explained he's doing SETIatHome processing.
Go talk to your psychologist. You need your meds dialed up.
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Re: Re: The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
"Love", I don't know, however the Koran does say it's evil to kill women, children, and the elderly, and even an enemy soldier who's laid down his arms. I've been told later interpretations (Hadith?) have over-ridden this admonishment, but I never bothered to go further into it to understand the details.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Christians are as bad and how about screw you relgious nutjobs
You're not even trying. That's just the first hit in ixquick for "genocide bible". Hit #2:
The first hit has a nice discussion as to why it's crap to think "Ah, that's just the Old Testament."
Enjoy.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm no expert...
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Re: Re: OKAY, we get it: AT&T, Comcast, Verizon BAD -- Google good.
Indeed!
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Re: Re: Re: OKAY, we get it: AT&T, Comcast, Verizon BAD -- Google good.
I believe it's changed a lot. It's put paid to all the others' protestations of, "You're just not being realistic. This is the best that can be done, and at the best price that it can be done." Guess what, Google, even as a sideline to what it does as its core business blows them out of the water and has people all over the country praying Google fibre will come to their town too. It's also dragged the incumbents grudgingly into upping their game, *in the places Google's rolled it out*. Well, why aren't they now rolling it out everywhere now that they've shown how empty were their earlier protestations?
Because they don't have to as long as Google's not done it everywhere. They're happy to just rake in the bucks in their captive markets providing overly expensive lousy service and ignoring consumer complaints knowing their customers have little choice but to accept it or move.
This's pretty insulting when taxpayer's money has gone to subsidizing improvements which the ISPs have avoided implementing, because the FCC prior to Wheeler's let them get away with it.
These big ISPs are lucky there aren't mobs of pitchfork wielding consumers and taxpayers storming their boardrooms demanding heads for the guillotines.
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Re: Re: I think the idea is brilliant!
[Translation: I am tempted to offer them rot13, then sit back and see how long it takes them to figure it out.]
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm no expert...
That's a bandaid solution to make up for your unwillingness to bother (aka laziness) with proofreading and using the preview button.
A good carpenter doesn't blame his tools. Physician, heal thyself.
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Re: Past? or Future?
This sort of thing (Twitter, Facebook, social networking, cloud) is not the future I wish to embrace. I think they're doing it wrong, and they're living in the past; a regurgitated and reformed past to give the appearance of a future worth having. I think we can do better than this if we refuse to settle for less than what we could, and should, have.
On the other hand, I'm also currently mildly addicted to the novels of Conn Igguldson and M. C. Scott, still attempting to wrap my mind around Imperial Rome, so what do I know?
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Hey, when you're trying to start WWIII, you've gotta use what ya got. Ukraine, Iran, North Korea, The Internet, ...
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Certain religions used to believe the same things about other religions, and some still do.
So, you're a wannabe petty tyrant who believes himself correct and to hell with anyone who doesn't agree, and you believe guns kill people, not people kill people.
Sad. No, I don't care to hear any sob stories about relatives or friends who managed to off themselves via illicit drugs. That's irrelevant to what I'm complaining about.
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