...they are a small school who has had a consistently good football team, even playing much bigger schools and winning more often than not... HOWEVER, i have ALWAYS thought: A. their field is FUGLY, per-i-odd... B. they have a tendency to wear all blue uniforms while playing there, and -to my mind- it provides a small advantage in that the all-blue players get 'lost' against the all-blue background... i think of it as crappy gamesmanship at the least, and cheating at the worst... (i think the same thing of tennis players: saw some players at US Open wearing optic green outfits; excuse me? isn't the ball optic green ? and you allow them to wear optic-green outfits where the ball might get 'lost' such that the opponent can't follow the flight easily ? ? ? no, that is wrong, too... i doubt they would allow an outfit which had a realistic images of tennis balls all over, shouldn't allow outfits the same colors as the balls, either... realizing that tennis outfits were traditionally white, and the balls were white back then, too...)
got back from seeing 'snowden' and chat afterwards w lead cast, stone and snowden... pretty cool, only a couple minor glitches on hookup (thought the enn ess ehh was better than that; *know* they are as eee-vil as that)... that guy ! that guy ! what a great citizen, what a great guy... not only is my 'protest vote' of snowden/manning one of my proudest votes (did it in 2012, too), it is actually one of the BEST votes if i want to elect moral humans who are great patriots and love their country and fellow citizens... sure, ALL politicians make that claim; they ain't risked SHIT for it: THESE HEROES (manning, snowden, drake, binney, sterling, kiriakou, etc)risked EVERYTHING for OUR country, OUR rights, OUR duty to maintain a nation of laws, not of a few self-selected people... yeah, ANY ONE of those people, by virtue of standing up for the precept of an informed citizenry as a prerequisite for a functioning small-dee democracy, would be qualified to lead our nation... the candidates of the two faces of the one Korporate Money Party ? disgust... disgust is the only reaction i can have to these 'choices'... it is disgusting, we must demand better...
to top it off, they claim the DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE, as far as the interrogation tapes was no big deal, 'cause they had notes on it and shit... gee, you and i can get away w shit like that, right ??? right ??? scumbag traitor who destroyed the tapes 'on his own inititive' got fired, right ??? right ??? we live in a nation ruled by laws, not psychopaths, right ??? right ? ? ?
here's the thing, i realize you wrote that as a sick joke, but the sick joke is on us: it is all too literally true, the good get pilloried, the bad get dirty money...
going to the wed preview screening with stone/snowden chat afterwards... *then* i'm going to march on washingtoon to free snowden and manning and brown and all the rest of the political prisoners in totally free amerika...
okay, i'd like to *think* i have the balls to pick up my torch and pitchfork and march on washingtoon; but i won't, i will slink into my shit job the next day with stupid, clueless co-workers and authoritarian bosses, and i'm left wondering why the world sucks, then simultaneously realize it is because we are a nation of pampered, cowardly pussies which includes myself...
when i went through some background investigation/clearance bullshit to work on some gummint (theoretically) top-secret sites/jobs (which NEVER happened over the 4-5 years, we NEVER had to use the secret little faraday room with wiped computer, etc), just about EVERYONE selected for this work went to their boss, and said, 'um, uh, um, i might have, um, experimented, yeah, that's the ticket, experimented with some devil weed, um, a time or a thousand...' (valid experimentation requires many trials !) AND what, um, all these *other* people were told, was that as long as you admitted to _____ , and indicated it was past tense-ish, then it would not be a factor in being denied clearance... (i sure wasn't) now, this was NOT for a direct gummint job, or the feebs, just a subcontractor; but not sure if the same might not apply to a some extent in the USG at large... *kind of* the point is, if you have confessed or it is out in the open that you use(d) ______, then that supposedly inoculates you from being blackmailed by some nefarious third party who knows you use(d) _______... of course, that is presuming a valid interest in any person's drug use, which i don't believe there is (aside from a few obvious exceptions, like airline pilots; in that case, i want to make sure my pilots ARE on cocaine, so i know they will have the alertness that is paramount in flying !)... as a basic 'libertarian' belief: it is MY BODY, and I and I ALONE control it and what i want to put in it for whatever reasons i want, or no reason at all... IF that were so (which it isn't, The State controls my body), then essentially there would be no 'illegal' substances/drugs... oops, there goes the stigma of illegality, jail, etc... oops, there goes the reason for many moral scolds to live in order to make others suffer by legislating morality... oops, there goes the unemployability of millions... oops, there goes the black market which undergirds the banksters with laundering drug monies... ohhhhh... ohhhhh, *now* i get why The They (tm) don't want it legalized... huh... that makes perverted sense... The Bastards ! ! !
increasingly disappointed with the googs, m-in-law just had a situation where her gmail acct was hacked and taken over by someone, also got info to a bank acct... she could not get a hold of anyone in any way at googs to TRY and untangle the mess a d get the hacker locked out her acct... customer service, googs dont need no steenkin customer service... having seen and experienced googs abandoning some shiny toy they enticed you with to use their junk, and then had the rug pulled out from under you, i will NEVER trust them with anything... foad, googs, you have gone to the dark side...
as you may know, most/all? states have people who supposedly test and certify the gas pumps, often with a little 'tamperproof' seal thingy on it... why couldn't the states certify the speeds, usage, etc stats of online providers to determine their accuracy and reliability ? ? ? i know i don't trust an ISP's speed test, unless/until i run it against 2-3 other online tests...
i am calling you a little crazy... the sticking point of your scenario, is that local donut eaters do NOT have jurisdiction or authority to enforce federal laws... now, the reality is, if the feds dont have jurisdiction, they call in the locals; if the locals dont have jurisdiction (as in your supposition), they call in the feds... BUT, the feebs are simply not going to get into random car screenings unless they steal, er, i mean impound everyones car...
...i think a salient point is that the journo MERELY wrote a short intro that said this is so-and-so's story in her own words... whatever followed and was supposedly defamatory, were the words of so-and-so, not the journo...
there are at least several problems with that: 1. what was formerly the province of public commons is now becoming privatized; what to do when there is NO public space left and it is all effectively controlled by the korporatocracy ? 2. i know it is a joke that tells itself, but we *should* expect our korporate overlords to adhere to basic morality and fairness, REGARDLESS of what the law allows; like i said, what a joke, right ? 3. i am HIGHLY skeptical of bright-line rules: they ALWAYS end up not covering enough of whatever 'bad' stuff crazy nekkid apes are trying to stop, and then end up being extended far beyond their usefulness... how about we just use simple good judgement ? is there any of that left any more ? 4. again, a quaint concept, but SUPPOSEDLY korporations -besides a LIMITED, time-specific charter- ALSO had to perform some public good in the actual production of their bidness, NOT just make widgets at a profit... why can't we have an expectation they will do so -and, for example, protect everyone's free speech rights- with such a widely used medium, REGARDLESS of whether it is 'private' ? it is OUR public charter which gave them the korporate super-powers they enjoy, why DON'T we get some benefit ?
whenever we get to these types of issues where it APPEARS the powers that be dont know WTF they are talking about, or are being recondite about the tradeoffs they are proposing, DO NOT be fooled: they are not stoopid, they are not ignorant of the consquences of whatever little piece of eee-vil they are espousing, they know EXACTLY what the eee-vil consequences are, and that is EXACTLY why they are being proposed, they are not unintended consequences, they are eee-vil because that is what they want... this shit does not happen by mistake, or because they simply didnt realize the results would be bad, it happens because that is what they want...
okay (not being snarky, being sincere), then YOU write us a how-to guide on how to do our own email server that incorporates the safeguards you think will make life more bestest (sic) AND be a better alternative than (semi) trusting Big Data...
um, where you been ? MOST unions done-did been busted alright already... hmmm, probably just coincidence that THE One union left with ANY influence are armed...
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in case you don't know...
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used to respect boise state...
HOWEVER, i have ALWAYS thought:
A. their field is FUGLY, per-i-odd...
B. they have a tendency to wear all blue uniforms while playing there, and -to my mind- it provides a small advantage in that the all-blue players get 'lost' against the all-blue background... i think of it as crappy gamesmanship at the least, and cheating at the worst...
(i think the same thing of tennis players: saw some players at US Open wearing optic green outfits; excuse me? isn't the ball optic green ? and you allow them to wear optic-green outfits where the ball might get 'lost' such that the opponent can't follow the flight easily ? ? ? no, that is wrong, too... i doubt they would allow an outfit which had a realistic images of tennis balls all over, shouldn't allow outfits the same colors as the balls, either... realizing that tennis outfits were traditionally white, and the balls were white back then, too...)
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that guy ! that guy !
what a great citizen, what a great guy...
not only is my 'protest vote' of snowden/manning one of my proudest votes (did it in 2012, too), it is actually one of the BEST votes if i want to elect moral humans who are great patriots and love their country and fellow citizens...
sure, ALL politicians make that claim; they ain't risked SHIT for it: THESE HEROES (manning, snowden, drake, binney, sterling, kiriakou, etc)risked EVERYTHING for OUR country, OUR rights, OUR duty to maintain a nation of laws, not of a few self-selected people...
yeah, ANY ONE of those people, by virtue of standing up for the precept of an informed citizenry as a prerequisite for a functioning small-dee democracy, would be qualified to lead our nation...
the candidates of the two faces of the one Korporate Money Party ?
disgust...
disgust is the only reaction i can have to these 'choices'...
it is disgusting, we must demand better...
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its lying scumsuckers all the way down...
gee, you and i can get away w shit like that, right ???
right ???
scumbag traitor who destroyed the tapes 'on his own inititive' got fired, right ???
right ???
we live in a nation ruled by laws, not psychopaths, right ???
right ? ? ?
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Re:
the good get pilloried, the bad get dirty money...
going to the wed preview screening with stone/snowden chat afterwards... *then* i'm going to march on washingtoon to free snowden and manning and brown and all the rest of the political prisoners in totally free amerika...
okay, i'd like to *think* i have the balls to pick up my torch and pitchfork and march on washingtoon; but i won't, i will slink into my shit job the next day with stupid, clueless co-workers and authoritarian bosses, and i'm left wondering why the world sucks, then simultaneously realize it is because we are a nation of pampered, cowardly pussies which includes myself...
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Re: Drug Testing
(valid experimentation requires many trials !)
AND what, um, all these *other* people were told, was that as long as you admitted to _____ , and indicated it was past tense-ish, then it would not be a factor in being denied clearance... (i sure wasn't)
now, this was NOT for a direct gummint job, or the feebs, just a subcontractor; but not sure if the same might not apply to a some extent in the USG at large...
*kind of* the point is, if you have confessed or it is out in the open that you use(d) ______, then that supposedly inoculates you from being blackmailed by some nefarious third party who knows you use(d) _______...
of course, that is presuming a valid interest in any person's drug use, which i don't believe there is (aside from a few obvious exceptions, like airline pilots; in that case, i want to make sure my pilots ARE on cocaine, so i know they will have the alertness that is paramount in flying !)...
as a basic 'libertarian' belief: it is MY BODY, and I and I ALONE control it and what i want to put in it for whatever reasons i want, or no reason at all...
IF that were so (which it isn't, The State controls my body), then essentially there would be no 'illegal' substances/drugs... oops, there goes the stigma of illegality, jail, etc... oops, there goes the reason for many moral scolds to live in order to make others suffer by legislating morality... oops, there goes the unemployability of millions... oops, there goes the black market which undergirds the banksters with laundering drug monies...
ohhhhh...
ohhhhh, *now* i get why The They (tm) don't want it legalized...
huh...
that makes perverted sense...
The Bastards ! ! !
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if not for SWMBO...
On the post: Thanks, Google, For Fucking Over A Bunch Of Media Websites
Re: Now scale this out to their other properties
customer service, googs dont need no steenkin customer service...
having seen and experienced googs abandoning some shiny toy they enticed you with to use their junk, and then had the rug pulled out from under you, i will NEVER trust them with anything...
foad, googs, you have gone to the dark side...
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Re:
why couldn't the states certify the speeds, usage, etc stats of online providers to determine their accuracy and reliability ? ? ?
i know i don't trust an ISP's speed test, unless/until i run it against 2-3 other online tests...
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Re: Re: The Hell
the sticking point of your scenario, is that local donut eaters do NOT have jurisdiction or authority to enforce federal laws...
now, the reality is, if the feds dont have jurisdiction, they call in the locals; if the locals dont have jurisdiction (as in your supposition), they call in the feds...
BUT, the feebs are simply not going to get into random car screenings unless they steal, er, i mean impound everyones car...
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Re: Could they change the meaning of the license?
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Re: Little known facts
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kind of skimpy...
whatever followed and was supposedly defamatory, were the words of so-and-so, not the journo...
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Re: Re: Yea... yea...
1. what was formerly the province of public commons is now becoming privatized; what to do when there is NO public space left and it is all effectively controlled by the korporatocracy ?
2. i know it is a joke that tells itself, but we *should* expect our korporate overlords to adhere to basic morality and fairness, REGARDLESS of what the law allows; like i said, what a joke, right ?
3. i am HIGHLY skeptical of bright-line rules: they ALWAYS end up not covering enough of whatever 'bad' stuff crazy nekkid apes are trying to stop, and then end up being extended far beyond their usefulness... how about we just use simple good judgement ? is there any of that left any more ?
4. again, a quaint concept, but SUPPOSEDLY korporations -besides a LIMITED, time-specific charter- ALSO had to perform some public good in the actual production of their bidness, NOT just make widgets at a profit... why can't we have an expectation they will do so -and, for example, protect everyone's free speech rights- with such a widely used medium, REGARDLESS of whether it is 'private' ? it is OUR public charter which gave them the korporate super-powers they enjoy, why DON'T we get some benefit ?
On the post: James Comey Claims He Wants An 'Adult Conversation' About Encryption; Apparently 'Adults' Ignore Experts
c'mon now, you know better...
this shit does not happen by mistake, or because they simply didnt realize the results would be bad, it happens because that is what they want...
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Re:
On the post: Copying Is Not Theft! A New T-Shirt From Techdirt
um, strong message, weak graphic...
copying is not
'theft' is essentially not readable...
just sayin'...
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Re:
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Re: Union Busting
MOST unions done-did been busted alright already...
hmmm, probably just coincidence that THE One union left with ANY influence are armed...
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*sigh*
be afwaid, be vewy, vewy afwaid ! ! !
(now, submit and obey)
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