Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Dec 9th, 2014 @ 6:44am
Devils advocate- it's their site and you're using it voluntarily which means on their terms.
It's my computer, my connection, my eyes, and my brain. If you offer me something worth my time and you don't insult or assault me in any way, I may give you some limited access to the above. I may even come to support you in one way or another.
That's the deal. If that's unacceptable to you, I'll be happy to never bother you again. Understand you'll be shot on sight if you attempt to get around that blockage.
I'd put it differently. An acceptable ad is one I don't notice unless I want to.
Imagine strolling leisurely down a sidewalk, enjoying the sunshine and tweets from the birdies ... Then from behind a bush jumps out a pitchman drowning out everything else backed up by a line of chorus girls and a brass band. That's when I want a mac-10.
When I click on a link, then notice Gkrellm's network traffic meter spike and both cores also spike and I'm still waiting so see the page I've asked for, and the bottom line displays my browser phoning home to "services" I've never heard of, and now my machine's on its knees and I'm still waiting for my browser to kill the tab that's sucking the life out of it, ...
I do not need animated autoplaying gifs embedded in a page that I was intending to READ! I do not want to have to scroll all the way down the page to find the autoplay ad that's destroying the responsiveness of my machine. I want a kill file so I can blackhole the assholes who did this to me so they can never do it to me again!
My computer is not a television. Making it act like a television is an assault on my senses. Do that to me, and you'll never be invited back.
I wonder how many people alive today have even seen a 300 baud modem. I once worked in a room full of them. The first time I downloaded Linux, it was over a 9600 bps modem (41 * 1.44 Mb floppies). For years, I was more than satisfied with ADSL (ca 400 K/sec).
Economic warfare by corporate stockholders on citizens & taxpayers.
I used to just spit at things like that casino on Wall St., but now I see it's actually outright attacking us. Sharpen the guillotines people. It won't be long now.
This is institutionalized corruption and double-speak at its finest.
No, this is:
Federal guidelines on asset forfeiture say law enforcement agencies "may not commit" to spending figures in advance
How can they allow this to continue for four more years when it's not allowed in the first place, never should have even started, and should have resulted in sanctions on the first instance?
If they're not wearing a bodycam, then they're not issued a pistol, non-lethal tools only.
As we've seen recently, you can kill barehanded. So, you'll need to amend that to their having to be handcuffed behind their back, and perhaps even straight-jacketed.
being trained to view everyone not a police officer as a mark [syn: {chump}, {fool}, {gull}, {patsy}, {fall guy}, {sucker}, {soft touch}, {mug}] might have something to do with this ...
It was probably just too many tears in his eyes watching his country melt down into a chaotic fascist state. I don't blame him for being overcome with grief. I'm still trying to remind myself I'm not reading William L. Shirer's Rise and Fall ....
I'd start by firing the lot of them, bringing charges of intentional professional negligence against those in command, and calling in the National Guard, for starters. This is appalling lunacy ongoing, with no end in sight. They place their lives and those of all around them in danger by calling 911! This is way beyond the powers of the ACLU.
I've hung around some fairly unsavory characters in my time (petty thieves, bikers, drug dealers, etc.), but they pale in comparison to CDP.
Perhaps this is the unofficial plan to deal with the illegal alien problem. Nobody in their right mind is going to want to set foot in the US if this is what can be expected. I'm glad I saw the US when I was younger. There's no chance of that happening now.
I'm tempted to post huge chunks of the report and let them speak for themselves, but I won't.
Holy !@#$. You mean there's more?!?
I think the psychiatric community needs to come up with a new psychopathology to explain why otherwise sane individuals continue to reside in that city.
I'll just leave this (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater) here:
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
So, is CCC sanitizing its reporting so as not to offend delicate British sensibilities?
Apparently, you crawled under a rock 1.5 decades or so ago. What brought you out?
You really should read up on them. They did some fairly cool stuff bringing East Germany's Stasi crimes to light, for one thing. They've also sponsored huge yearly conventions all this time.
... with the majority being, as in other countries, file sharing sites!
It should be mentioned that the censors did this to openbittorrent.com the other day too, with exactly the same result. Add "67.212.71.74 openbittorrent.com" to your /etc/hosts (YMMV) file, and the problem disappears.
"The Internet perceives censorship as damage, and routes around it." Don't anyone tell our guardians of truth and justice.
This's very reminiscent of the Pentagon Papers episode. The US military was committing war crimes and genocide, but gawd forbid The People be told what was happening in their name.
I didn't think that. After all, we're watching as a crime is being committed before our eyes. These idiots think this is a game of face saving reputation salvage.
Re: Re: WOW must be some real bad crap you yankies did
Other nations that are much older than ours invented this (not just nazis and the ss) ...
Very true. Many royal palace dungeons spent centuries refining the craft of torture. Waterboarding is fairly benign by those standards.
There was a US president once who is now revered partly because he stepped up and took responsibility for his actions: "I cannot tell a lie ...". It's possibly apochryphal, but I guess we can retire that completely now.
I still will be surprised if it is ever published in a usable form.
The really wierd thing about this? This is just the for public viewing sanitized version of the real, ten times longer, report. Yet that level of obfuscation isn't enough for them.
I'm thinking Nuremburg level stuff now, and they're making it worse with their every word. I'm feeling very sorry for the USA public right now. What a dark chapter those bastards led you into.
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Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Dec 9th, 2014 @ 6:44am
It's my computer, my connection, my eyes, and my brain. If you offer me something worth my time and you don't insult or assault me in any way, I may give you some limited access to the above. I may even come to support you in one way or another.
That's the deal. If that's unacceptable to you, I'll be happy to never bother you again. Understand you'll be shot on sight if you attempt to get around that blockage.
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Re: Acceptable Ads
I'd put it differently. An acceptable ad is one I don't notice unless I want to.
Imagine strolling leisurely down a sidewalk, enjoying the sunshine and tweets from the birdies ... Then from behind a bush jumps out a pitchman drowning out everything else backed up by a line of chorus girls and a brass band. That's when I want a mac-10.
When I click on a link, then notice Gkrellm's network traffic meter spike and both cores also spike and I'm still waiting so see the page I've asked for, and the bottom line displays my browser phoning home to "services" I've never heard of, and now my machine's on its knees and I'm still waiting for my browser to kill the tab that's sucking the life out of it, ...
I do not need animated autoplaying gifs embedded in a page that I was intending to READ! I do not want to have to scroll all the way down the page to find the autoplay ad that's destroying the responsiveness of my machine. I want a kill file so I can blackhole the assholes who did this to me so they can never do it to me again!
My computer is not a television. Making it act like a television is an assault on my senses. Do that to me, and you'll never be invited back.
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Re: NOW LISTEN UP
How's about we just BLOW THEIR FSCKIN HEADS OFF INSTEAD?!? Seems a much simpler solution.
Not feeling very tolerant atm.
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DMR == Anti-Christ?!? Choose your weapons A-hole. I'll meet you at dawn, with relish.
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I wonder how many people alive today have even seen a 300 baud modem. I once worked in a room full of them. The first time I downloaded Linux, it was over a 9600 bps modem (41 * 1.44 Mb floppies). For years, I was more than satisfied with ADSL (ca 400 K/sec).
Gb WiFi? Who needs it? The Netflix generation.
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Economic warfare by corporate stockholders on citizens & taxpayers.
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Re: In other words
No, this is:
How can they allow this to continue for four more years when it's not allowed in the first place, never should have even started, and should have resulted in sanctions on the first instance?
This is armed robbery, plain and simple.
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Re: Re: Re:
As we've seen recently, you can kill barehanded. So, you'll need to amend that to their having to be handcuffed behind their back, and perhaps even straight-jacketed.
Good luck with that.
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FTFY.
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Re: CDP? CPD? GDP?
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I'd start by firing the lot of them, bringing charges of intentional professional negligence against those in command, and calling in the National Guard, for starters. This is appalling lunacy ongoing, with no end in sight. They place their lives and those of all around them in danger by calling 911! This is way beyond the powers of the ACLU.
I've hung around some fairly unsavory characters in my time (petty thieves, bikers, drug dealers, etc.), but they pale in comparison to CDP.
Perhaps this is the unofficial plan to deal with the illegal alien problem. Nobody in their right mind is going to want to set foot in the US if this is what can be expected. I'm glad I saw the US when I was younger. There's no chance of that happening now.
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Gah!
Holy !@#$. You mean there's more?!?
I think the psychiatric community needs to come up with a new psychopathology to explain why otherwise sane individuals continue to reside in that city.
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Re: Lost in translation...
So, is CCC sanitizing its reporting so as not to offend delicate British sensibilities?
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Re: Not composed of criminals?
Apparently, you crawled under a rock 1.5 decades or so ago. What brought you out?
You really should read up on them. They did some fairly cool stuff bringing East Germany's Stasi crimes to light, for one thing. They've also sponsored huge yearly conventions all this time.
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Re:
It should be mentioned that the censors did this to openbittorrent.com the other day too, with exactly the same result. Add "67.212.71.74 openbittorrent.com" to your /etc/hosts (YMMV) file, and the problem disappears.
"The Internet perceives censorship as damage, and routes around it." Don't anyone tell our guardians of truth and justice.
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Re: If that's the case...
How many more times must this lesson be learned?
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Re: Re: follow-up is critical
I didn't think that. After all, we're watching as a crime is being committed before our eyes. These idiots think this is a game of face saving reputation salvage.
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Re: Re: WOW must be some real bad crap you yankies did
Very true. Many royal palace dungeons spent centuries refining the craft of torture. Waterboarding is fairly benign by those standards.
There was a US president once who is now revered partly because he stepped up and took responsibility for his actions: "I cannot tell a lie ...". It's possibly apochryphal, but I guess we can retire that completely now.
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Re: Re: WOW must be some real bad crap you yankies did
They're going all the way to the wall to keep you believing that. From that, I have to assume it's even worse than Hitler.
We'll have to retire Godwin. Apparently, we have a new low now: 21st Century USA.
I offer my deepest condolences. This is a very sad day.
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Re: Has the right of it
The really wierd thing about this? This is just the for public viewing sanitized version of the real, ten times longer, report. Yet that level of obfuscation isn't enough for them.
I'm thinking Nuremburg level stuff now, and they're making it worse with their every word. I'm feeling very sorry for the USA public right now. What a dark chapter those bastards led you into.
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