THANK YOU: murderous behavior by mercenary goons of the state is not a big deal...
a young black kid walking down the street with a air gun, or water gun, or cordless drill, or cell phone, or fucking nothing at all is an INFINITELY DANGEROUS threat to society and its completely understandable -perhaps regrettable- that he was blown up by pearl-clutching kops...
but armed goons roaming the streets with weapons meant for war, threatening EVERYONE they are SUPPOSED to 'protect and serve' ? ? ? the new normal... whatever defends it, must be double plus good...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
perhaps you will notice, there is no exception for: But excepting when we slide into a full-on police state and armed mercenaries just feel like cracking some skulls, because MOTHERFUCKIN' EAGLES, bitchez...
"Bad teachers barely cover half a year's worth of material, whereas a good teacher can cover 1.5 years of a subject"
that's precious...
its ALL teach to the test, baby... oh, in spite of the fact that EVERYTHING *IS* oriented to teach to the test (because of the dire consequences attached), you are NOT ALLOWED -SERIOUSLY- to MENTION the phrase 'teach to the test', EV-FUCKING-ER... THAT is the on-the-schoolground reality...
talk about tests and vital statistics, there is ONE stat which is a near 100% accurate predictor of the academic success of kids in amerika: socio-economic status, with the emphasis on economic... the home atmosphere and economic level tracks perfectly with economic performance, and it is hardly surprising, it simply makes sense on a number of levels...
kids that come from homes where there is not ONE book in the household (and my better half has a LOT of kids in that cohort in her remedial reading classes... oh, they're remedial reading classes (but you can't call them that any more, or the precious snowflakes will feel bad), but they are doublespeaked some other bullshit term i can't recall), do worse on literacy tests than kids who have college-educated parents, have always been read to as tots, have immediate access to books, magazines, etc, not to mention a usually highly involved and motivating parent or two... (not to mention generally better access to nutritious foodstuffs, pleasant, stable home environment, medical care, etc...)
ALL the NON-SCHOOL problems which DOMINATE the lives of teaching kids of lower socio-economic status compound so quickly and deeply, that it can wreck a family before any real or imagined 'safety net' bullshit can kick in...
they are also -just as your economic puppetmasters would nod approvingly- likely to move around a lot in search of jobs, living with relatives, etc, and thus *that* instability contributes to all kinds of family problems, including the educability of kids living in such circumstances...
hell, even heretofore secure upper middle class people can feel that pain; only they generally have resources, relatives with money, some sort of contingency that allows them to recover, while our poorer brothers and sisters have no such wellspring of helpful resources...
*can* *some* kids (almost ALWAYS with parents VERY big on education), rise above their circumstances and perform well ? of course, but a large number can not...
if you believe in social darwinism, i guess that is no big deal; if you believe the greatest good for the greatest number, and that you are your brother's keeper, then maybe you feel differently than allowing a jungle metaphor to inform our social contracts...
by that 'standard', you will have to concede that 'real' encyclopedias are rubbish in the main, as well...
if you want to go all sturgeon's law on us, can't argue with that; but, we gotta go with SOMETHING for a compendium of superficial factoids, and from what i've read, wikipedia compares favorably in numerous aspects to any other 'one stop' source you would care to name...
so, sure, its poop; but is it the smelliest poop ? ? ?
Re: Only moved the corporate mass-media industry focus
exactly this, as you've said...
in short: wikipedia *has* earned a certain amount of respect and credibility (NOT the alpha-omega, but still); whereas, The News Media *HAS* earned a LOT of disrespect and lost a LOT of credibility... AND deservedly so...
as long as the puppetmasters are pulling the strings of the korporate media, it will be ever thus... thus our REJECTION (as much as we can) of traditional Big Media...
appreciate your information, but it is beside the point, here's why: we 99% of lowly citizens are supposed to adhere to secret laws, laws made up on the spot, and laws that aren't even thought of yet... in other words, they set up an impossible task such that we WILL be jacked up no matter which way we turn... ("Get on the sidewalk or I'll arrest you." "Sir, you are trespassing on a sidewalk in an illegal manner, you're under arrest.", etc) same with the whatever laws or regulations are in effect for airspace, etc: it DOES NOT matter what the actual law is, The They (tm) will simply ignore it or make up shit to DO WHAT THEY WANT regardless of the law... naturally enough, us 99% are not afforded that same convenience... i have seen -MANY, MANY times- state/county cop planes and helicopters who do NOT observe flight ceilings, etc NO MATTER WHAT... there is no hot pursuit, there is no REASON they have to fly under the ceilings, except they can with impunity, so they do... i actually called the FAA on them once, and they blah blah blahed that yeah, they are supposed to observe those flight ceilings, but they can essentially get away with doing whatever the fuck they want... not to mention, they use UNMARKED spotter planes to circle over areas all fucking day... i have been tempted to try and take one down with my 22 and then claim i was a hero for taking down an unmarked al qaeda plane... somehow, i'm betting i couldn't get away with some ACTUALLY REASONABLE excuse like that, but piggies can say WHATEVER bullshit they want -or mostly, say nothing at all- and get away with breaking the law EVERY DOG DAMN TIME...
frankly, i think snowden let The They (tm) off the hook, i wish he WOULD HAVE taken the crown jewels and put them out there; in my opinion, that is the only way to stop this runaway surveillance train... further, recall that russell tice and others have claimed (i believe them) there is a more super-tippy-top secret system where a lot of the more nasty stuff is kept... i would not be surprised in the least if there is a further system beyond that held closely by a few of our puppetmasters, which has blackmail type info...
THEY ARE ALL SCUM, and here's my takeaway: i don't care IF (i don't believe them) they ARE actually protecting us from all sorts of unknown cyberboogie men (again, which i don't believe for ONE femtosecond), IT IS NOT WORTH the destruction of trust to 'protect' us from achmed al qaeda taking our credit card numbers and, um, buying IED's from amazon with them... or whatever their ultimate evil is... I. DO. NOT. BELIEVE. THEM. PERIOD.
@ that POS we call whatever: BULL-fucking-SHIT... nearly EVERY korporate entity on the planet does EVERYTHING in their power to eliminate pesky, annoying customers calling in for anything BUT ORDERING MORE SHIT...
you want to 'upgrade', order new service, get a replacement, do ANYTHING that requires spending more money with them ? you can get through by phone, online, telepathy, etc IMMEDIATELY, from any of a million places that phone number is shown...
you want warranty service, tech support, find out why an order is late, etc, etc, etc ? ? ? forget about it: they hide the phone numbers, the emails go unanswered, the online chat is NEVER available, they make you go through phone menu hell, they put you on INTERMINABLE hold ALL THE FUCKING TIME, they bump you up levels repeating your pathetic story over and over, they play games, stall and fuck you over until you give up and go away...
you sign up for a service, and they don't ask for ONE DOG DAMN thing as any confirmation that you are you; however, you go to cancel that service, and suddenly you need 10 factor authentication, fax a copy of your birth certificate to a number that is busy, notarize your existence out the yingyang, provide fingerprints and retinal scans, and then they will proceed to 'lose' all that shit but not bother to tell you for six months when you find a ding on your credit rating for some 'unpaid debt' you never knew about...
fuck you whatever, and your authoritarian, Empire toadying, pro-bidness idiocy...
oh, and a coward to boot... what a lousy excuse for a human bean... the saving grace is, you are such an obvious shillbot, NO ONE takes you seriously... POS...
as i posted previously, definitely a waste of time with the bbb; they are NOT there to help consumers, but to make their complaints go away (without resolution)...
yep, bbb is almost ALWAYS useless, and is basically a method for companies to deep six complaints, whitewash their rep, and call it a day...
their 'process' for taking consumer complaints and acting on them is TOTALLY slanted to make it easy for the business to 'make them go away'... essentially, ALL the business has to do is LITERALLY 'reply' to the complaint (NOT promise any action, etc, SIMPLY RESPOND), and that complaint is then listed as 'resolved' (or whatever their bee-ess term is) and every body is happy, right ?
'cause when you have a complaint against a company, all you are looking for is a bullshit email that acknowledges the complaint, but doesn't do one thing to actually address the situation...
no, they are simply window-dressing, NOT a real means of redress for business complaints... don't bother...
exactamundo... made this point a while back: 'the press' are PROXIES for US ALL, exercising their free speech/reporting rights on behalf of ALL OF US... the press doesn't have 'special rights' we mere citizens don't have, they have the SAME RIGHTS we ALL HAVE, they are simply exercising them on our behalf... WE ALL have those rights, just that some individuals are exercising them on our behalf in their news gathering actions to inform us all... not as if reporters are supposed to dig up all this info, interview public officials, etc ONLY to keep that information personal and private to themselves, and thus are allowed those rights as a privileged classp; no, that research and reporting is done on behalf of all of us...
are you implying ducks stink ? i think that is most unfair, the duck i've eaten hasn't stunk at all...
besides, we are in times of 'diode justice' (only works one way), the 1% pull legal justifications out of their butts and they pass muster (to odiferously mix metaphors), and the 99% can't depend on 'rights' or 'laws' or 'justice' at all...
works out great for the 1%, and, after all, isn't that -both literally and figuratively- all that counts ? ? ?
the thing is, kops *ARE* being met with less respect, because they have EARNED THAT by being the enforcer goons of the state (read: korporatocracy), instead of the protectors of the 99%... they no longer 'protect and serve' US 99%, but ONLY the interests and 'values' of the 1%... and they are SURPRISED that 99% of us don't like them ? ? ? they are purposefully selected to NOT be the brightest bulbs in the bunch, so we are reaping the benefit of *that* far-sighted policy when the dumbos can't figure out they better get right with the 99% for when the hard rain comes...
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a young black kid walking down the street with a air gun, or water gun, or cordless drill, or cell phone, or fucking nothing at all is an INFINITELY DANGEROUS threat to society and its completely understandable -perhaps regrettable- that he was blown up by pearl-clutching kops...
but armed goons roaming the streets with weapons meant for war, threatening EVERYONE they are SUPPOSED to 'protect and serve' ? ? ?
the new normal...
whatever defends it, must be double plus good...
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perhaps you will notice, there is no exception for: But excepting when we slide into a full-on police state and armed mercenaries just feel like cracking some skulls, because MOTHERFUCKIN' EAGLES, bitchez...
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is to larf...
that's precious...
its ALL teach to the test, baby... oh, in spite of the fact that EVERYTHING *IS* oriented to teach to the test (because of the dire consequences attached), you are NOT ALLOWED -SERIOUSLY- to MENTION the phrase 'teach to the test', EV-FUCKING-ER...
THAT is the on-the-schoolground reality...
talk about tests and vital statistics, there is ONE stat which is a near 100% accurate predictor of the academic success of kids in amerika: socio-economic status, with the emphasis on economic...
the home atmosphere and economic level tracks perfectly with economic performance, and it is hardly surprising, it simply makes sense on a number of levels...
kids that come from homes where there is not ONE book in the household (and my better half has a LOT of kids in that cohort in her remedial reading classes... oh, they're remedial reading classes (but you can't call them that any more, or the precious snowflakes will feel bad), but they are doublespeaked some other bullshit term i can't recall), do worse on literacy tests than kids who have college-educated parents, have always been read to as tots, have immediate access to books, magazines, etc, not to mention a usually highly involved and motivating parent or two... (not to mention generally better access to nutritious foodstuffs, pleasant, stable home environment, medical care, etc...)
ALL the NON-SCHOOL problems which DOMINATE the lives of teaching kids of lower socio-economic status compound so quickly and deeply, that it can wreck a family before any real or imagined 'safety net' bullshit can kick in...
they are also -just as your economic puppetmasters would nod approvingly- likely to move around a lot in search of jobs, living with relatives, etc, and thus *that* instability contributes to all kinds of family problems, including the educability of kids living in such circumstances...
hell, even heretofore secure upper middle class people can feel that pain; only they generally have resources, relatives with money, some sort of contingency that allows them to recover, while our poorer brothers and sisters have no such wellspring of helpful resources...
*can* *some* kids (almost ALWAYS with parents VERY big on education), rise above their circumstances and perform well ? of course, but a large number can not...
if you believe in social darwinism, i guess that is no big deal; if you believe the greatest good for the greatest number, and that you are your brother's keeper, then maybe you feel differently than allowing a jungle metaphor to inform our social contracts...
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oh really ? ? ? were they killed ? ? ?
then i think what they've really done is CREATE another 100,000 POTENTIAL whistleblowers...
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if you want to go all sturgeon's law on us, can't argue with that; but, we gotta go with SOMETHING for a compendium of superficial factoids, and from what i've read, wikipedia compares favorably in numerous aspects to any other 'one stop' source you would care to name...
so, sure, its poop; but is it the smelliest poop ? ? ?
On the post: Why Do People Trust Wikipedia? Because An Argument Is Better Than A Lecture
Re: Only moved the corporate mass-media industry focus
in short: wikipedia *has* earned a certain amount of respect and credibility (NOT the alpha-omega, but still);
whereas, The News Media *HAS* earned a LOT of disrespect and lost a LOT of credibility...
AND deservedly so...
as long as the puppetmasters are pulling the strings of the korporate media, it will be ever thus... thus our REJECTION (as much as we can) of traditional Big Media...
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Re: Citations Please
...on average
(ps kongresskritters have no testicles, and too few ovaries...)
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Re: That didn't last long
our superiors and donut eaters may reign over us, but -like runaway horses- they need to be reined in...
not that i want to rain on your homophone parade...
hhh
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besides, what will be the incentive for anyone to produce more clips, who will watch espn/etc for clips when this, um, other, method is available...
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Re: FAA TFR
in other words, they set up an impossible task such that we WILL be jacked up no matter which way we turn...
("Get on the sidewalk or I'll arrest you." "Sir, you are trespassing on a sidewalk in an illegal manner, you're under arrest.", etc)
same with the whatever laws or regulations are in effect for airspace, etc: it DOES NOT matter what the actual law is, The They (tm) will simply ignore it or make up shit to DO WHAT THEY WANT regardless of the law...
naturally enough, us 99% are not afforded that same convenience...
i have seen -MANY, MANY times- state/county cop planes and helicopters who do NOT observe flight ceilings, etc NO MATTER WHAT... there is no hot pursuit, there is no REASON they have to fly under the ceilings, except they can with impunity, so they do...
i actually called the FAA on them once, and they blah blah blahed that yeah, they are supposed to observe those flight ceilings, but they can essentially get away with doing whatever the fuck they want...
not to mention, they use UNMARKED spotter planes to circle over areas all fucking day... i have been tempted to try and take one down with my 22 and then claim i was a hero for taking down an unmarked al qaeda plane... somehow, i'm betting i couldn't get away with some ACTUALLY REASONABLE excuse like that, but piggies can say WHATEVER bullshit they want -or mostly, say nothing at all- and get away with breaking the law EVERY DOG DAMN TIME...
Empire must fall...
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Re: Chekov's?
further, recall that russell tice and others have claimed (i believe them) there is a more super-tippy-top secret system where a lot of the more nasty stuff is kept... i would not be surprised in the least if there is a further system beyond that held closely by a few of our puppetmasters, which has blackmail type info...
THEY ARE ALL SCUM, and here's my takeaway: i don't care IF (i don't believe them) they ARE actually protecting us from all sorts of unknown cyberboogie men (again, which i don't believe for ONE femtosecond), IT IS NOT WORTH the destruction of trust to 'protect' us from achmed al qaeda taking our credit card numbers and, um, buying IED's from amazon with them... or whatever their ultimate evil is...
I.
DO.
NOT.
BELIEVE.
THEM.
PERIOD.
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BULL-fucking-SHIT...
nearly EVERY korporate entity on the planet does EVERYTHING in their power to eliminate pesky, annoying customers calling in for anything BUT ORDERING MORE SHIT...
you want to 'upgrade', order new service, get a replacement, do ANYTHING that requires spending more money with them ? you can get through by phone, online, telepathy, etc IMMEDIATELY, from any of a million places that phone number is shown...
you want warranty service, tech support, find out why an order is late, etc, etc, etc ? ? ? forget about it: they hide the phone numbers, the emails go unanswered, the online chat is NEVER available, they make you go through phone menu hell, they put you on INTERMINABLE hold ALL THE FUCKING TIME, they bump you up levels repeating your pathetic story over and over, they play games, stall and fuck you over until you give up and go away...
you sign up for a service, and they don't ask for ONE DOG DAMN thing as any confirmation that you are you; however, you go to cancel that service, and suddenly you need 10 factor authentication, fax a copy of your birth certificate to a number that is busy, notarize your existence out the yingyang, provide fingerprints and retinal scans, and then they will proceed to 'lose' all that shit but not bother to tell you for six months when you find a ding on your credit rating for some 'unpaid debt' you never knew about...
fuck you whatever, and your authoritarian, Empire toadying, pro-bidness idiocy...
oh, and a coward to boot... what a lousy excuse for a human bean... the saving grace is, you are such an obvious shillbot, NO ONE takes you seriously... POS...
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Re: Re: Re: Use snail mail?
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Re: Re: report these issues
their 'process' for taking consumer complaints and acting on them is TOTALLY slanted to make it easy for the business to 'make them go away'... essentially, ALL the business has to do is LITERALLY 'reply' to the complaint (NOT promise any action, etc, SIMPLY RESPOND), and that complaint is then listed as 'resolved' (or whatever their bee-ess term is) and every body is happy, right ?
'cause when you have a complaint against a company, all you are looking for is a bullshit email that acknowledges the complaint, but doesn't do one thing to actually address the situation...
no, they are simply window-dressing, NOT a real means of redress for business complaints... don't bother...
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Re: First Amendment Fear
made this point a while back: 'the press' are PROXIES for US ALL, exercising their free speech/reporting rights on behalf of ALL OF US...
the press doesn't have 'special rights' we mere citizens don't have, they have the SAME RIGHTS we ALL HAVE, they are simply exercising them on our behalf...
WE ALL have those rights, just that some individuals are exercising them on our behalf in their news gathering actions to inform us all...
not as if reporters are supposed to dig up all this info, interview public officials, etc ONLY to keep that information personal and private to themselves, and thus are allowed those rights as a privileged classp; no, that research and reporting is done on behalf of all of us...
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i think that is most unfair, the duck i've eaten hasn't stunk at all...
besides, we are in times of 'diode justice' (only works one way), the 1% pull legal justifications out of their butts and they pass muster (to odiferously mix metaphors), and the 99% can't depend on 'rights' or 'laws' or 'justice' at all...
works out great for the 1%, and, after all, isn't that -both literally and figuratively- all that counts ? ? ?
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Re: Forgetting Something
i asked this online, and was *told* (insert grain of salt here) that -of course!- the fines/etc will be tax deductable...
as the saying goes: i hate it when we lose, but i hate it even more when we win, and we still lose...
the game is rigged...
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presumably...
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they no longer 'protect and serve' US 99%, but ONLY the interests and 'values' of the 1%...
and they are SURPRISED that 99% of us don't like them ? ? ?
they are purposefully selected to NOT be the brightest bulbs in the bunch, so we are reaping the benefit of *that* far-sighted policy when the dumbos can't figure out they better get right with the 99% for when the hard rain comes...
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