now, now, let's not get too cynical... hee hee hee that's my job... ho ho ho besides, there is one korporate money party... ha ha ha but it is equally generous to both lapdogs ! ! ! ak ak ak
meta comment: not sure if i said this before, but i really like the clean, simple layout of techdirt, and how the stories are presented with a couple paragraphs which fade out, to be revealed upon smooshing the 'expand' button... *however*, frequently read the site on my tablet during lunch, and it is pretty easy to fat-finger the 'expand' button and hit one of the (stupid) social media thingies... i know its a first-world problemo, but it sucks for this first-worlder... just sayin'...
"It would be crazy to suggest that any of this was done on purpose -- it's almost certainly a bit of convenience for the intel and law enforcement communities."
1. NO, it is NOT crazy, it is -in fact- wise and prudent to consider the eee-vil gummints and their minions HAVE DONE... REPEAT, HAVE DONE, not think they might have done, might could have done, might maybe, but HAVE DONE...
look up 'false flags' and i'm betting approx 90%+ of the kampers would be horrified to realize the number of so-called 'terrorist' attacks which HAVE BEEN perpetrated by 'their own' gummints...
we REGULARLY get a steady diet of made-up terrorist conspiracies TOTALLY the handiwork of the feebs, taking -literally- retarded people and setting them up as 'terrorists' who never were...
2. the second part is almost more damning: it is expected that the purpose in life of us 99% is to provide a convenient method for the goons of the state to jack us up... its just become so messy and inconvenient to railroad us under normal circumstances...
y-e-a-h-h-h-h... i get the schtick, but not sure how far you are taking it... molecular compounds do not necessarily equal 'chemical', especially in the sense MOST people use it MOST of the time... i am pretty sure MOST of us are *at least* concerned, if not paranoid about WHATEVER food additives/adulterants are used to process 'our' foodstuffs... it is NOT that some chemical admixtures may not be -on balance- beneficial and we would definitely 'vote' for them, IF WE KNEW WHAT WE ARE 'VOTING' ON ! ! ! BUT, we do NOT trust Big Agra, etc, because they have put profits before honor... they do not DESERVE trust, and the wiser default position would be to discount/distrust EVERYTHING they claim, since it is impractical to impossible to parse out what is true/untrue in their propaganda... ...or you could try breathairianism, and see how far that takes you...
chilluns ! pogo said it best: we have met the enemy, and he is us ! ! !
1. if hayden is agin' it, i am almost certain it is some internecine skirmish, rather than any actual morals, ethics, empathy, or functioning metaphorical heart...
2. "alternative to nuclear war..." hmmm, why does this remind me of how the taser was to be an alternative to shooting, except it wasn't...
3. "...both whether it was legal and how it might create some serious blowback..." ...“you can accidentally take down electricity in the entire country.” yeah, i think in olden times -like a couple decades ago- that was called a war krime... now, its just the cost of doing bidness... besides, war krimes are for losers, bitchez...
not sure 'partnering' is the correct term, it is more of a funder/fundee relationship... gg and others at the intercept have discussed the subject of editorial independence, etc numerous times... i still have some qualms about the relationship and potential for abuse, but we live in an age of patronage: working outside The System requires a sugar daddy...
"We put the rotten egg smell in gas so people can know its there on purpose... this is a good idea. Now if we, instead, put an aerosol poison in it instead of give it a smell... that would be really bad idea"
um, the gas *is* the 'aerosol poison', no need to add any...
heh, ninj, think you need to back the outrage bus up a little, and let scote roll out from under... pretty much think scote *did* address the scheme itself, and i agree in most respects...
AND, of course it has to 'be about the fine bros'; again, that is part and parcel of the techdirtia worldview: tend your rep, and your rep will tend to you... (the corollary is obvious)
WHOEVER it is: T-rump could say he is all for puppies and rainbows, and i am IMMEDIATELY wondering what the hell is wrong with puppies and rainbows now, BECAUSE of the source and his reputation, past acts and misdeeds...
NO, it is EXACTLY that kind of unvarnished truth and realistic assessment which needs to be said REPEATEDLY, and LOUDLY in contravention to Empire's lapdog propaganda machine we call the mainstream media... NOT talking about it is the 'sin', NOT facing up to the corrupted system is the problem... YOU are the problem when you call for abject authoritarian acceptance of any/all outrages foisted on us all...
unless/until the critical mass of sheeple bare their fangs at Empire will anything change... power NEVER devolves voluntarily... NEVER...
so its like ubiquiti ? ? ? think distributed/individual-based, 'mesh' networking is a pretty cool idea, if not the ultimate in small dee democracy in action... if i recall, wasn't just a urban-friendly method, but actually more popular in rural areas; the line-of-sight thing being one of the main issues...
rightio!!! ONLY properly integrated startups with -like- totally 'representative' percentages of demographics we aspire to at all levels and job descriptions is acceptable, otherwise it is a krime against humanity...
oh, you don't know how spot on your subject header is... was just reading about one of the 7th circles of bankster hell, wherein all ye here may abandon all hope:
turns out, that latest round of regulatory relaxing and wall street's tailor-made laws, have made it so when the poo poo hits the rotating blade, and the banks start falling like dominoes, the arbitragin', scammin', HFTin', lyin', hookers and blowin' masters of the universe are FIRST AND FOREMOST in line to be paid back 100% for their leveraged market manipulations ! ! ! actual people who put up REAL money the banksters leveraged out the ying-yang ? small-time depositors and joe and jane nobody ? F.U.C.K.E.D.
well, we're still in a 'State of Emergency', since nine eleven, doncha know... so -you know- anything goes... um, for our own good, and shit... 'cause, um, national sekurity and terrorists and shit... now, shut up, sheeple, and chew your cud...
@ balls- not only that, but where you gonna go ? ? ? The They (tm) have you by the short and curlies...
arguendo: A. you need a cellular telephonic computing machine technology thingy, B. you have X number of carriers available in your area, C. HOW many is that ? D. what do you do when you go through all X of them, and find they are ALL EEE-vil, and ALL suck at customer service, etc ? ? ? E. see, A.
(oh, and for extra credit, you can plug this formula into nearly ANY major 'commodity' service -phone, banking, media, health insurance, utilities, etc- and get the same result... seeing a pattern ? ? ? i know the conclusions -while inescapable- are like kryptonite to proper propaganda viktims raised on a steady diet of kapitalist imperialism... yeah, i'm looking *directly* at you, mr. whatever...)
1. dem'rats vs rethugs : sorry, *relative* to the problem of confronting and dismantling Empire, there is very little difference between them, they BOTH support Empire 110% ! ! !
2. they BOTH agree to avoid important issues by common consensus; they BOTH emphasize the hot-button issues which are *relatively* inconsequential in the overall scheme of things, but serve very well to keep us divided...
3. they BOTH are beholden to the Korporate Money Party, NOT the 99%... one dollar, one vote ! ! !
4. they BOTH by common consent, excoriate, eliminate and exterminate ANY third-party challenges/'outsiders' that gain any traction; destroying ANY attempt by the citizenry to get at meaningful alternatives to the korporate-kontrolled duopoly...
5. indies as a whole cohort, outnumber each of the asses and oliphant's parties... only a matter of time... then the 'elections' will be called off...
6. and -of course- BOTH parties manifestly and egregiously have avoided their constitutional, legal, and fiduciary duties in performing (the correct word with a different connotation) as representatives...
IF THEY HAD BEEN DOING THEIR DUTY -at long last- they would be declaring wars, instead of abdicating that constitutional duty by letting the preznit have a free hand to bomb/destroy/murder with impunity around the globe...
IF THEY HAD BEEN DOING THEIR DUTY, there would be a fuckton of banksters in jail or strung up; and BOTH parties have been party to that monumental injustice... BOTH cover for each other when push comes to shove, and BOTH use bullshit scare tactics on their constituency...
IF THEY HAD BEEN DOING THEIR DUTY, there would be NO secret renditions, (NO renditions, per-i-fucking-od ! ! !) NO warrantless taps, NO 'scoop it all up', NO black torture sites, NO secret courts, with secret laws, secret verdicts, and secret executions...
THAT is anti-thetical to America, sir/madam! WHERE were YOU when all this shit was (IS!) going down ?
with the occasional exception of a wyden, etc, WHO speaks up against these abominations ? NO ONE on the inside, NEVER...
(ONLY if a snowden FORCES the issue does ANY of this crap come out...)
secret executive signing statements ? ? ? i don't care WHAT bullshit 'reasoning' someone tries on me, THAT SHIT is unconstitutional, anti-small-dee-democratic, and fucking breathtakingly immoral...
NONE OF THAT is what i love about America, land of the FREE, home of the BRAVE; and everything i hate about amerika, the Empire...
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Re: you forgot the /sarc flag
hee hee hee
that's my job...
ho ho ho
besides, there is one korporate money party...
ha ha ha
but it is equally generous to both lapdogs ! ! !
ak ak ak
meta comment:
not sure if i said this before, but i really like the clean, simple layout of techdirt, and how the stories are presented with a couple paragraphs which fade out, to be revealed upon smooshing the 'expand' button...
*however*, frequently read the site on my tablet during lunch, and it is pretty easy to fat-finger the 'expand' button and hit one of the (stupid) social media thingies...
i know its a first-world problemo, but it sucks for this first-worlder...
just sayin'...
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1. NO, it is NOT crazy, it is -in fact- wise and prudent to consider the eee-vil gummints and their minions HAVE DONE... REPEAT, HAVE DONE, not think they might have done, might could have done, might maybe, but HAVE DONE...
look up 'false flags' and i'm betting approx 90%+ of the kampers would be horrified to realize the number of so-called 'terrorist' attacks which HAVE BEEN perpetrated by 'their own' gummints...
we REGULARLY get a steady diet of made-up terrorist conspiracies TOTALLY the handiwork of the feebs, taking -literally- retarded people and setting them up as 'terrorists' who never were...
2. the second part is almost more damning: it is expected that the purpose in life of us 99% is to provide a convenient method for the goons of the state to jack us up... its just become so messy and inconvenient to railroad us under normal circumstances...
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Re: Re: I Only Eat Chemical-Free Food
didn't think so...
On the post: DailyDirt: Adulteration Of Foods May Not Be What You Expect
Re: I Only Eat Chemical-Free Food
i get the schtick, but not sure how far you are taking it...
molecular compounds do not necessarily equal 'chemical', especially in the sense MOST people use it MOST of the time...
i am pretty sure MOST of us are *at least* concerned, if not paranoid about WHATEVER food additives/adulterants are used to process 'our' foodstuffs...
it is NOT that some chemical admixtures may not be -on balance- beneficial and we would definitely 'vote' for them, IF WE KNEW WHAT WE ARE 'VOTING' ON ! ! !
BUT, we do NOT trust Big Agra, etc, because they have put profits before honor... they do not DESERVE trust, and the wiser default position would be to discount/distrust EVERYTHING they claim, since it is impractical to impossible to parse out what is true/untrue in their propaganda...
...or you could try breathairianism, and see how far that takes you...
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Re: Re: Re:
pogo said it best:
we have met the enemy, and he is us ! ! !
1. if hayden is agin' it, i am almost certain it is some internecine skirmish, rather than any actual morals, ethics, empathy, or functioning metaphorical heart...
2. "alternative to nuclear war..." hmmm, why does this remind me of how the taser was to be an alternative to shooting, except it wasn't...
3. "...both whether it was legal and how it might create some serious blowback..." ...“you can accidentally take down electricity in the entire country.”
yeah, i think in olden times -like a couple decades ago- that was called a war krime...
now, its just the cost of doing bidness...
besides, war krimes are for losers, bitchez...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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bootless and fruitless...
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Re:
gg and others at the intercept have discussed the subject of editorial independence, etc numerous times...
i still have some qualms about the relationship and potential for abuse, but we live in an age of patronage: working outside The System requires a sugar daddy...
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Re: Re: Re:
um, the gas *is* the 'aerosol poison', no need to add any...
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Re: Re:
pretty much think scote *did* address the scheme itself, and i agree in most respects...
AND, of course it has to 'be about the fine bros'; again, that is part and parcel of the techdirtia worldview: tend your rep, and your rep will tend to you...
(the corollary is obvious)
WHOEVER it is: T-rump could say he is all for puppies and rainbows, and i am IMMEDIATELY wondering what the hell is wrong with puppies and rainbows now, BECAUSE of the source and his reputation, past acts and misdeeds...
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Re: Absolutely horrible ruling
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Re: Re:
NOT talking about it is the 'sin', NOT facing up to the corrupted system is the problem...
YOU are the problem when you call for abject authoritarian acceptance of any/all outrages foisted on us all...
unless/until the critical mass of sheeple bare their fangs at Empire will anything change...
power NEVER devolves voluntarily...
NEVER...
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Re:
think distributed/individual-based, 'mesh' networking is a pretty cool idea, if not the ultimate in small dee democracy in action...
if i recall, wasn't just a urban-friendly method, but actually more popular in rural areas; the line-of-sight thing being one of the main issues...
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Re: Pretentious
ONLY properly integrated startups with -like- totally 'representative' percentages of demographics we aspire to at all levels and job descriptions is acceptable, otherwise it is a krime against humanity...
OR:
'if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out'...
*sheesh*
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Re: Benefactors First, Citizens Last if at All
was just reading about one of the 7th circles of bankster hell, wherein all ye here may abandon all hope:
turns out, that latest round of regulatory relaxing and wall street's tailor-made laws, have made it so when the poo poo hits the rotating blade, and the banks start falling like dominoes, the arbitragin', scammin', HFTin', lyin', hookers and blowin' masters of the universe are FIRST AND FOREMOST in line to be paid back 100% for their leveraged market manipulations ! ! !
actual people who put up REAL money the banksters leveraged out the ying-yang ? small-time depositors and joe and jane nobody ?
F.U.C.K.E.D.
long lube, but short condoms...
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Re: Re: Hate to tell you:
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
john maynard keynes
Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, it's just the opposite.
john kenneth galbraith
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Re: Re:
so -you know- anything goes...
um, for our own good, and shit...
'cause, um, national sekurity and terrorists and shit...
now, shut up, sheeple, and chew your cud...
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Re:
not only that, but where you gonna go ? ? ?
The They (tm) have you by the short and curlies...
arguendo:
A. you need a cellular telephonic computing machine technology thingy,
B. you have X number of carriers available in your area,
C. HOW many is that ?
D. what do you do when you go through all X of them, and find they are ALL EEE-vil, and ALL suck at customer service, etc ? ? ?
E. see, A.
(oh, and for extra credit, you can plug this formula into nearly ANY major 'commodity' service -phone, banking, media, health insurance, utilities, etc- and get the same result... seeing a pattern ? ? ? i know the conclusions -while inescapable- are like kryptonite to proper propaganda viktims raised on a steady diet of kapitalist imperialism... yeah, i'm looking *directly* at you, mr. whatever...)
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Re: I'm Hating on This So Much
(moo moo)
hoppy mirthday two moo
(moo moo)
hoppy mirthday deer so-and-so
hoppy mirthday two moo
(moo moo)
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Re: Re: Re: Palindrome
hee hee hee
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Re: Re: Re: Wyden is a Democrat
2. they BOTH agree to avoid important issues by common consensus; they BOTH emphasize the hot-button issues which are *relatively* inconsequential in the overall scheme of things, but serve very well to keep us divided...
3. they BOTH are beholden to the Korporate Money Party, NOT the 99%... one dollar, one vote ! ! !
4. they BOTH by common consent, excoriate, eliminate and exterminate ANY third-party challenges/'outsiders' that gain any traction; destroying ANY attempt by the citizenry to get at meaningful alternatives to the korporate-kontrolled duopoly...
5. indies as a whole cohort, outnumber each of the asses and oliphant's parties... only a matter of time... then the 'elections' will be called off...
6. and -of course- BOTH parties manifestly and egregiously have avoided their constitutional, legal, and fiduciary duties in performing (the correct word with a different connotation) as representatives...
IF THEY HAD BEEN DOING THEIR DUTY -at long last- they would be declaring wars, instead of abdicating that constitutional duty by letting the preznit have a free hand to bomb/destroy/murder with impunity around the globe...
IF THEY HAD BEEN DOING THEIR DUTY, there would be a fuckton of banksters in jail or strung up; and BOTH parties have been party to that monumental injustice... BOTH cover for each other when push comes to shove, and BOTH use bullshit scare tactics on their constituency...
IF THEY HAD BEEN DOING THEIR DUTY, there would be NO secret renditions, (NO renditions, per-i-fucking-od ! ! !) NO warrantless taps, NO 'scoop it all up', NO black torture sites, NO secret courts, with secret laws, secret verdicts, and secret executions...
THAT is anti-thetical to America, sir/madam!
WHERE were YOU when all this shit was (IS!) going down ?
with the occasional exception of a wyden, etc, WHO speaks up against these abominations ?
NO ONE on the inside, NEVER...
(ONLY if a snowden FORCES the issue does ANY of this crap come out...)
secret executive signing statements ? ? ?
i don't care WHAT bullshit 'reasoning' someone tries on me, THAT SHIT is unconstitutional, anti-small-dee-democratic, and fucking breathtakingly immoral...
NONE OF THAT is what i love about America, land of the FREE, home of the BRAVE; and everything i hate about amerika, the Empire...
put me on your fucking list, komrade feinstein !
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