well, here is at least one who got something from it: highlighting antidirt's hypocrisy by the fact HE(she/it) is a PAYING 'insider' when it is 'all' free as in beer, good catch... antidirt: the self-refuting bot... hys-fucking-sterical...
thank you, kog... said the same along those lines above, before i saw your post...
i sincerely don't get it: WE ARE ALL our own 'journalists' as citizens (IF we so desire); it is just that -practically speaking- we MUST have proxies doing OUR research, reporting, etc; because NO ONE INDIVIDUAL can have the time/resources to report on EVERYTHING without having proxies to do so for us...
i still am not grokking the citizen/journalist split: in a real sense, journalists are a SUBSET of all us regular citizens, who should not get SUPERIOR rights, but THE SAME rights...
they are merely our proxies, NOT SUPERIOR CITIZENS with superior rights: EVERY citizen should have such rights and privileges, NOT just journalists...
WE ALL HAVE THOSE RIGHTS and protections, NOT just a korporate-paid lackey of Empire who has a laminated ID from BigMedia Korp...
i don't get it...
(well, okay, i 'get it' in relation to Empire wanting to make them a separate CONTROLLED subclass; but i don't get why journos and citizens go along with that false notion...)
*OUCH* johann, your comments are consistently good-to-great, BUT, you've dropped the ball on this one, in that it HAS BEEN adjudicated (i *think* -if i'm remembering correctly- in the trial where the fox news reporters had done actual, real, useful reporting on BGH in milk, and they were suing fox for firing them over TRUE REPORTING; and the judge 'found' that FALSE REPORTING was NOT 'illegal', or a sort of fraud, it was simply -you know- infotainment) that so-called 'news' orgs are NOT held to any kind of 'true/false' standards...
sheeple still got bread, circuses, and icrap to play with... its shiny and it sparkles, much more fun than saving our collective lives... that's h-a-r-d...
1. i got a 'better' (ie will-not-happen-in-a-million-years) idea: FORGET about the bullshit 'principle' (ie the-opposite-of-principle) that money=speech, THAT RIGHT THERE is where we have gone off the rails... IF you agree with that 'principle' (ie immorality), you have simply made the death of small-dee democracy INEVITABLE... so FORGET THAT SHIT, that 'principle' which is not a principle, is simply ENFORCED upon us by rich people and their eee-vil minions of doom; it is no sort of moral 'principle' i have been raised to recognize...
2. now, PUBLIC campaign financing is the next step, WITH useless gatekeeper media greedhogs supplying FREE AIR TIME for campaign ads... (FUCKERS, we don't get SHIT back for GIVING OUR airwaves to those greedhogs, AT THE VERY LEAST, they can provide free air time during campaign periods every couple years...)
make that minimum of free media be sufficient, then the candidates for the greedhogs spending above that will have little advantage EVEN IF they outspend 100:1... (not perfect, but a start)
3. shorten the campaigning seasons (not sure exactly what mechanism, etc, but other countries seem to manage it okay), so it is NOT an interminable multi-year snorefest that turns EVERYONE off...
4. DUMP the Korporate Money Party duopoly of dem'rats/rethugs controlling nearly any and all aspects of our campaign laws, financing, and 'qualifying' candidates, etc... LEVEL the playing field so third/fourth/etc parties can get traction, NOT be relegated to essentially NO STATUS in the races... gee, aren't these fucktards endlessly extolling the magical benefits of 'competition' ? ? ? (except for THEM, of course)
okay, *that* would be a good start; BUT it will NOT happen, because the corrupted, amoral pigs who run/control The System (tm) will NOT allow said system to be modified beyond their control... AGAIN, The System (tm) is NOT 'broken' as far as THEY are concerned; it is working PERFECTLY WELL for their greedy ends... why change a good thing for themselves ? they will not...
in short, i have little/no hope that a broken, corrupted system (for us 99%) will be forced to change by using a broken, corrupt system controlled by the 1%...
not like this is the most important factoid to come out of this situation, but WTF has calling your mommy 'mommy' have to do with fuckall ? ? ? yes, *of course* 'people' are trying to spin it like this is some sort of childish moniker that a growed up adult man you eats fire and shits lightning simply does. not. do. but, really ? ? ? people have ALL KINDS of variations on mother, mom, etc that have NOTHING to do with how old they are... it MAY very well be he was a goofy momma's boy (as his father says, i'll take his word for it), but it AIN'T because he calls his mom 'mommy', that is simply retarded to latch on to that as some sort of 'evidence' he was a lame basement-dweller barely out of his nappies... AGAIN, very well could be such a stereotype, but the 'calls her mommy' 'evidence' is silly...
i was just going to say, as a semi-fan of 'bizarre foods' show, andrew zimmern often runs across the same 'type' of food in a lot of places he visits across the globe...
a donut-like food is found in a LOT of cultures...
1. like the author and a couple posters, i also have a mini-boycott on them since they were such asshats... have not relented so far, but saw one of them on the amazon prime crap, so maybe watch eventually...
2. further, i boycotted from the political reporting on these movies which PURPORT to show REAL events in a more-or-less 'realistic', 'true' fashion, but then end up carrying water for Empire through lies, distortion, and passing on gummint propaganda unchallenged...
3. also GIVEN the EXTREME cooperation between the admin/cia & military and the movie makers, and GIVEN both the overt and covert his story of cia/etc using media whores for their propaganda efforts, I HAVE NO FAITH THE WRITERS/DIRECTORS/ETC ARE NOT COMPLICIT WITH THEM IN ALL WAYS, INCLUDING BEING COPYRIGHT MAXIMALISTS..
4. have NEVER been one to say 'oh, X has a new movie out (*whatever* it is about), sure do want to see it...' NEVER... in fact, for MY tastes, established, famous, recognizable actors and celebutards NEGATIVELY influence my movie watching... i would prefer that all the actors be 'unknowns' (yes, i realize the impracticality, especially over time), because then i don't have any baggage, expectations, etc...
for example, liked robin williams as a comic, but was often MORE impressed by his acting; HOWEVER, i ALWAYS had 'problems' with him in movies, because i CAN NOT SHAKE, 'oh, that's robin williams, when is he going to start bouncing off walls in some coke-fueled riff...'
there are PLENTY of examples like that (FOR ME): oprah might be a good actress, i don't know; i can't get past her being 'oprah'... maybe this is just a stupid quirk that only an idiot like me has any thoughts along these lines, but i don't think so...
IF there is such a thing as the diminution of a previous work by someone transforming it, then *at least* the hobbit movies (and possibly the LOTR movies) are DEFINITELY 'guilty' of GROSS and egregious 'tampering' with original works...
LOVE hobbit/LOTR books, read a million times... movies of LOTR were done fairly well, but 'transformed' a BUNCH of shit that i did NOT appreciate (the tacked on 'romance' with aragorn and whats-her-name, TAKING TOM BOMBADIL COMPLETELY OUT = APOSTASY, etc); WASN'T that a 'transformation' which completely altered the original writer's (tolkein's) 'artistic statement' ? ? ? i think so, did you bitch about that ? i think not...
i have NOT gone to the hobbit movies for several reasons: they make a fairly simple story into THREE movies ? fuck you, jackson... they essentially used the hobbit story as a jumping off point to make a prequel to the LOTR, which the hobbit both was and wasn't... fuck you, jackson... they turn some parts of the story on its head, for ____ reasons ? fuck you, jackson... STOP significantly 're-writing' what was done and DO THAT...
also, selma sucks because it turns his story on its head... the story was good enough as is without making LBJ out to be THE enemy of civil rights legislation when closer to the OPPOSITE was true... that just plain sucks, THERE WAS NO REASON to do that, other than the writer/director hates LBJ for some reason... fuck her, too...
at the risk of being dismissed as a loony: WHO here thinks that WHEN (not IF) nanobots are just a LITTLE bit more advanced then they are now, the spooks will want to put one up the butt of EVERY person they want to 'track' ? ? ?
AGAIN, we have KIND OF/SORT OF made our own problem in this regard, in that we have not objected to surveillance on the grounds it is immoral, illegal, etc; but on the grounds that it is obtrusive, breaks the tubes, etc...
so, now we are left without a leg to stand on (butt to sit on?) when The They (tm) have nanobots they can deploy up our butt, because they are TOTALLY unobtrusive and unnoticeable, WHAT POSSIBLE OBJECTION COULD YOU HAVE, CITIZEN...
(you should have nothing to hide, blah blah blah...)
"If I started a service where you could send me a book and I'll black out all the dirty parts and send it back to you, that is (and should be) entirely legal. "
it is simply astounding to see a world unfolding that was foretold in any of a dozen dystopian sci fi novels, etc; and yet to be both seduced by the incremental and insidious nature of it, and silently horrified at its open implementation...
1984, newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrimes, etc... ALL coming to pass, if not in full flower...
in that vein, war = peace, hate = love, and -our new twist!- money = speech, now become sick reminders that Empire is in your face, in your ear, in your eyes, and in your stupid fucking brain...
so, citizen, how is it you don't realize that bribes = lobbying, corruption = revolving door, and criminal = 99% ? ? ? WE -the 1%- control the gummint, WE control the laws, WE control law enforcement, WE control the media, WE control EVERYTHING; and YOU - the 99%- control nothing but your own sphincter...
yes, the whole 'rehabilitation' aspect of jailing people becomes a joke when compared to the fact that they are HAMSTRUNG when they get out of jail in TRYING to make a place for themselves in 'polite society' (*cough*bullshit*cough*)...
there is LITTLE to NO incentive to 'go straight' (WHERE are you going to find a decent fucking job, EVEN IF NEVER A CON?), and MANY MANY reasons to keep on with being a criminal...
of course, there is a material difference between being an ex-con of the darker persuasion from the 'hood; and being an ex-con ('i wear your scorn like a badge of honor...'), traitorous POS like an ollie north slimeball who gets teevee shows and millions for their troubles... THERE IS NO DOUBT an ollie north has done INCALCULABLE damage to the country, but gets rewarded because he did the bidding of the puppetmasters; a two-bit criminal who bops one person over the head ? = decline of western civilization...
THANK YOU MR. Risen, you are one of the last to stand on principles (if not constitutional law), when all the rest have sworn fealty to Empire, or pussed out on their duties as proxies for the 99%...
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antidirt: the self-refuting bot...
hys-fucking-sterical...
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said the same along those lines above, before i saw your post...
i sincerely don't get it: WE ARE ALL our own 'journalists' as citizens (IF we so desire); it is just that -practically speaking- we MUST have proxies doing OUR research, reporting, etc; because NO ONE INDIVIDUAL can have the time/resources to report on EVERYTHING without having proxies to do so for us...
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they are merely our proxies, NOT SUPERIOR CITIZENS with superior rights: EVERY citizen should have such rights and privileges, NOT just journalists...
WE ALL HAVE THOSE RIGHTS and protections, NOT just a korporate-paid lackey of Empire who has a laminated ID from BigMedia Korp...
i don't get it...
(well, okay, i 'get it' in relation to Empire wanting to make them a separate CONTROLLED subclass; but i don't get why journos and citizens go along with that false notion...)
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johann, your comments are consistently good-to-great, BUT, you've dropped the ball on this one, in that it HAS BEEN adjudicated (i *think* -if i'm remembering correctly- in the trial where the fox news reporters had done actual, real, useful reporting on BGH in milk, and they were suing fox for firing them over TRUE REPORTING; and the judge 'found' that FALSE REPORTING was NOT 'illegal', or a sort of fraud, it was simply -you know- infotainment) that so-called 'news' orgs are NOT held to any kind of 'true/false' standards...
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its shiny and it sparkles, much more fun than saving our collective lives... that's h-a-r-d...
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IF you agree with that 'principle' (ie immorality), you have simply made the death of small-dee democracy INEVITABLE...
so FORGET THAT SHIT, that 'principle' which is not a principle, is simply ENFORCED upon us by rich people and their eee-vil minions of doom; it is no sort of moral 'principle' i have been raised to recognize...
2. now, PUBLIC campaign financing is the next step, WITH useless gatekeeper media greedhogs supplying FREE AIR TIME for campaign ads...
(FUCKERS, we don't get SHIT back for GIVING OUR airwaves to those greedhogs, AT THE VERY LEAST, they can provide free air time during campaign periods every couple years...)
make that minimum of free media be sufficient, then the candidates for the greedhogs spending above that will have little advantage EVEN IF they outspend 100:1...
(not perfect, but a start)
3. shorten the campaigning seasons (not sure exactly what mechanism, etc, but other countries seem to manage it okay), so it is NOT an interminable multi-year snorefest that turns EVERYONE off...
4. DUMP the Korporate Money Party duopoly of dem'rats/rethugs controlling nearly any and all aspects of our campaign laws, financing, and 'qualifying' candidates, etc... LEVEL the playing field so third/fourth/etc parties can get traction, NOT be relegated to essentially NO STATUS in the races...
gee, aren't these fucktards endlessly extolling the magical benefits of 'competition' ? ? ? (except for THEM, of course)
okay, *that* would be a good start; BUT it will NOT happen, because the corrupted, amoral pigs who run/control The System (tm) will NOT allow said system to be modified beyond their control... AGAIN, The System (tm) is NOT 'broken' as far as THEY are concerned; it is working PERFECTLY WELL for their greedy ends... why change a good thing for themselves ?
they will not...
in short, i have little/no hope that a broken, corrupted system (for us 99%) will be forced to change by using a broken, corrupt system controlled by the 1%...
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what's with the 'mommy' bee ess ? ? ?
yes, *of course* 'people' are trying to spin it like this is some sort of childish moniker that a growed up adult man you eats fire and shits lightning simply does. not. do.
but, really ? ? ?
people have ALL KINDS of variations on mother, mom, etc that have NOTHING to do with how old they are...
it MAY very well be he was a goofy momma's boy (as his father says, i'll take his word for it), but it AIN'T because he calls his mom 'mommy', that is simply retarded to latch on to that as some sort of 'evidence' he was a lame basement-dweller barely out of his nappies...
AGAIN, very well could be such a stereotype, but the 'calls her mommy' 'evidence' is silly...
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show us your papers, citizen...
now it's happening...
who will be first to be barcoded ? ? ?
a young, black, left-handed, red-headed, pedophile, i'm guessing...
all of us, not too long after...
welcome to the monkeyhouse...
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a donut-like food is found in a LOT of cultures...
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me too...
have not relented so far, but saw one of them on the amazon prime crap, so maybe watch eventually...
2. further, i boycotted from the political reporting on these movies which PURPORT to show REAL events in a more-or-less 'realistic', 'true' fashion, but then end up carrying water for Empire through lies, distortion, and passing on gummint propaganda unchallenged...
3. also GIVEN the EXTREME cooperation between the admin/cia & military and the movie makers, and GIVEN both the overt and covert his story of cia/etc using media whores for their propaganda efforts, I HAVE NO FAITH THE WRITERS/DIRECTORS/ETC ARE NOT COMPLICIT WITH THEM IN ALL WAYS, INCLUDING BEING COPYRIGHT MAXIMALISTS..
4. have NEVER been one to say 'oh, X has a new movie out (*whatever* it is about), sure do want to see it...' NEVER...
in fact, for MY tastes, established, famous, recognizable actors and celebutards NEGATIVELY influence my movie watching... i would prefer that all the actors be 'unknowns' (yes, i realize the impracticality, especially over time), because then i don't have any baggage, expectations, etc...
for example, liked robin williams as a comic, but was often MORE impressed by his acting; HOWEVER, i ALWAYS had 'problems' with him in movies, because i CAN NOT SHAKE, 'oh, that's robin williams, when is he going to start bouncing off walls in some coke-fueled riff...'
there are PLENTY of examples like that (FOR ME): oprah might be a good actress, i don't know; i can't get past her being 'oprah'... maybe this is just a stupid quirk that only an idiot like me has any thoughts along these lines, but i don't think so...
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IF there is such a thing as the diminution of a previous work by someone transforming it, then *at least* the hobbit movies (and possibly the LOTR movies) are DEFINITELY 'guilty' of GROSS and egregious 'tampering' with original works...
LOVE hobbit/LOTR books, read a million times... movies of LOTR were done fairly well, but 'transformed' a BUNCH of shit that i did NOT appreciate (the tacked on 'romance' with aragorn and whats-her-name, TAKING TOM BOMBADIL COMPLETELY OUT = APOSTASY, etc); WASN'T that a 'transformation' which completely altered the original writer's (tolkein's) 'artistic statement' ? ? ?
i think so, did you bitch about that ?
i think not...
i have NOT gone to the hobbit movies for several reasons: they make a fairly simple story into THREE movies ? fuck you, jackson... they essentially used the hobbit story as a jumping off point to make a prequel to the LOTR, which the hobbit both was and wasn't... fuck you, jackson... they turn some parts of the story on its head, for ____ reasons ? fuck you, jackson... STOP significantly 're-writing' what was done and DO THAT...
also, selma sucks because it turns his story on its head... the story was good enough as is without making LBJ out to be THE enemy of civil rights legislation when closer to the OPPOSITE was true... that just plain sucks, THERE WAS NO REASON to do that, other than the writer/director hates LBJ for some reason... fuck her, too...
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at the risk of being dismissed as a loony:
WHO here thinks that WHEN (not IF) nanobots are just a LITTLE bit more advanced then they are now, the spooks will want to put one up the butt of EVERY person they want to 'track' ? ? ?
AGAIN, we have KIND OF/SORT OF made our own problem in this regard, in that we have not objected to surveillance on the grounds it is immoral, illegal, etc; but on the grounds that it is obtrusive, breaks the tubes, etc...
so, now we are left without a leg to stand on (butt to sit on?) when The They (tm) have nanobots they can deploy up our butt, because they are TOTALLY unobtrusive and unnoticeable, WHAT POSSIBLE OBJECTION COULD YOU HAVE, CITIZEN...
(you should have nothing to hide, blah blah blah...)
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using that site, t-mob in florida is indicating i am not being tracked...
YMMV
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um, could you do the inverse ? ? ?
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1984, newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrimes, etc...
ALL coming to pass, if not in full flower...
in that vein, war = peace, hate = love, and -our new twist!- money = speech, now become sick reminders that Empire is in your face, in your ear, in your eyes, and in your stupid fucking brain...
so, citizen, how is it you don't realize that bribes = lobbying, corruption = revolving door, and criminal = 99% ? ? ?
WE -the 1%- control the gummint, WE control the laws, WE control law enforcement, WE control the media, WE control EVERYTHING; and YOU - the 99%- control nothing but your own sphincter...
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there is LITTLE to NO incentive to 'go straight' (WHERE are you going to find a decent fucking job, EVEN IF NEVER A CON?), and MANY MANY reasons to keep on with being a criminal...
of course, there is a material difference between being an ex-con of the darker persuasion from the 'hood; and being an ex-con ('i wear your scorn like a badge of honor...'), traitorous POS like an ollie north slimeball who gets teevee shows and millions for their troubles...
THERE IS NO DOUBT an ollie north has done INCALCULABLE damage to the country, but gets rewarded because he did the bidding of the puppetmasters; a two-bit criminal who bops one person over the head ? = decline of western civilization...
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James Risen =
THANK YOU MR. Risen, you are one of the last to stand on principles (if not constitutional law), when all the rest have sworn fealty to Empire, or pussed out on their duties as proxies for the 99%...
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because if you *are* serious, you are both sadly mistaken in your apprehensions, and seriously deficient in the ideals of a free society...
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