what would be the equivalent to a 'streisand effect' where you previously didn't know of a person's existence, but now that they've made themselves obnoxiously known, you decide you hate them ? ? ?
oddly enough, there *are* a lot of black 'scotsman'... the south was settled by a lot of scots, and a bunch in louisiana, as it turns out... e.g. shaquille O'Neal is NOT an uncommon scots name among blacks, there are a LOT of 'scots' named blacks...
@ kero under the present regime of Empire IT WOULD NOT MATTER if there was a 'war krimes' tribunal, because it would be run by the war kriminals... no, IF they had one, it would be to legally lynch the mannings, snowdens, assanges, etc of the world; the true puppetmasters behind this horror show would not be in the docket... sorry, the ONLY WAY that is actually going to happen, is Empire must fall, first... otherwise, it is an exercise in futility trying to convict the kriminal uberklass by laws, courts, and processes THEY CONTROL...
more Wm conlow... concise, clear writing style, laying out some unknown and semi-complex issues in an easy-to-digest fashion... *AND* salient commentary and speculation, too... good stuff...
c'mon, you need to take those blinkers off, seabiscuit... HERE is the common thread in all these issues:
you either believe:
A. the 'best and brightest' in the positions of power are simply fucking up, not knowing what they are doing, stupid beyond belief, ill-informed, and unable to discern just what in tarnation the 99% want...
or,
B. these guys and dolls know EXACTLY what they are doing, which is FEIGN concern, talk the talk, lead without followers, and bend EVERY law, fund, tax-break, and advantage to the 1% puppetmasters...
no doubt, there *are* some idiots, fools, and tools who are used by the puppetmasters of Empire, but the ones making the rules and running the show know EXACTLY what they are doing to fuck over the 1% EVERY FUCKING DAY...
do you understand the depths of their perfidy and corruption ? ? ?
a lying scumbag like brennan is a FUCKING HERO to Empire ! ! ! he will be REWARDED, just like all the torturers and legal whores who ignored law and morality to torture and kill for Empire: REWARDED, not prosecuted...
HOW MANY TIMES do you have to see that pattern repeated before you get what's going on ? ? ?
assuming he is a florida resident, there is protection for your primary residence, it can not be taken from the owner as a result of any civil suits against them, it is protected from such judgments...
which is one reason a lot of rich/dodgy folks relocate to florida and build a zillion dollar home: it is untouchable when/if their scumbag machinations get a civil judgment against them...
what a bizarre bidness model: you make products that work and people need, and they buy it and you support them... how do they expect to make money doing THAT...
everyone knows you only make money by threatening people, extorting money for useless products, gatekeeping 'intellectual property', and collecting rents for merely existing... *sheesh*
precisely, if it isn't done explicitly, it is done by non-enforcement on the ruling klasses... perhaps the sheeple should take note that puppetmasters can wreck world economies and rake in trillions of ill-gotten gains, ruining countless lives, and waltz away to orchestral music... 99%-ers -especially the browner, poorer ones- can look squinty-eyed at The Man, and they get rousted, persecuted, or summarily executed... all perfectly legal and justified, of course... why ? well, 'cause, fuck you, is why...
@ rapnel- do you have any personal experience with these systems, or is it your opinion that we should migrate to those types of systems for de-centralized control reasons ?
i have looked into some of the sat systems (ubiquiti, or some sort of weird spelling TLTG (too lazy to google)), and *still* not sure what putting together a viable rural system would entail... maybe if i went to a paid seminar they would say... no time, no dime...
IF you have personal experience, i would be interested in picking your brain on the subject... thanks a r t g u e r r i l l a a t w i n d s t r e a m d o t n e t
1. for all the 'due respect' people are giving jackn, it sure does sound disrespectful...
2. sorry, but 90-99% of the time, jackn is not only richtig, he is NOT being 'cynical', but REALISTIC...
3. we can ooo-and-ahh all we want that we 'discovered' (what? are you 2-year olds that you didn't think this all along?) that kongresskritters staffers are made of human beans! wow, who would have thunk it ! ! !
...but that means NOTHING in the overall scheme of things; as she points out herself in a later post, ALL their 'good' work comes to naught when it is shit-canned 'cause some unknown fat cat puts in the word: you are only allowed crumbs of legislation which helps the 99% when there is no one's ox being gored... guess how often that happens ? ? ?
no, THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN, i don't care HOW MANY 'good' people you have being corrupted by it, it WILL NOT WORK for the 99% under the present regime...
i'm sorry, CYNICISM is called for, NOT a capitulation or even admission of defeat; to me, it is being REALISTIC, not simply spouting some pollyanna-ish, rah-rah bullshit for the sake of 'morale'...
we 99% must go to EXTREME measures to even get legislation favorable to our interests CONSIDERED, much less a snowballs chance in hell of passing: THAT RIGHT THERE should tell you all you need to know: the system is NOT working for us, but the 1%...
but, heh, let's ignore reality and just click our heels together three times, and say, 'there's no place like the constitution, there's no place like the constitution...'
THAT will be just as effective... color me another cynic who doubts anything substantive will get done until Empire falls...
most kongresskritters harbor dreams of becoming the spy-er instead of the spy-ee... (bwa ha Ha HA HAAAaaaa *PoWeR!*)
ANY and ALL secret institutions WILL become corrupted, end of story...
everything is privatized or secret-ized, and/or the crimes against the people and against the state have become legalized: legalized bribery, legalized influence peddling, legalized propaganda, legalized gerrymandering, legalized monopolies, legalized lying, legalized cheating, and legalized stealing...
all 100% legal for the 1%; and 100% born off the backs of the 99%...
in *this* particular case, i won't say i disagree with whatever's assessment of amazon; BUT, given the his story of constantly making assertions with no real citation, AND running away when called out, it is not unreasonable to excoriate him/her for that...
as for his/her so-called aversion to 'personal attacks', that is bullshit on several levels; and almost ALWAYS an indication the poster is a bot who has NO INTEREST in debate, but only in being propaganda botz... approximately 90-99% of the time...
one thing i learned from reading some otherwise boring bidness bullshit in the series of books 'passion for excellence', etc, was that in order 'to succeed', YOU MUST FAIL, MANY times... there is NO SUCH THING as 'perfect innovation' with no mistakes: you WILL FAIL a LOT before you get to just the right combination which works... smart companies EMBRACE 'failure', in that they realize you WILL have to fail before you succeed, and so 'allow' for failure IS an option...
oh, hell yeah... we kids ran around outside ALL THE TIME unattended, unsupervised, unadulted in any way, shape or form, from the time we could walk... *especially* during summer... and when we got bikes, forget about it, we were gone baby gone... we went ALL OVER the place, down by the railroad tracks, over to the university, down to the candy store, whenever, wherever we wanted... my mom was not lax in any manner of speaking (for example, we had to learn our times tables by heart up to 12x12 before we could get a bike, she taught us to read before we started school, etc), but she didn't give our 'dangerous freedom' a second thought, just wasn't an issue, either privately or publicly... precious snowflakes now ? shit, they can barely tie their own shoes without an adult; never made (much less eaten) a mud pie; couldn't fix their own bike if you spotted them a bike shop; and couldn't find their way across the street without a GPS... i'm pissed i go by a yuppie school on my commute every morning, and if that school has 500 students, it takes 600 fat SUV's to get them there from the yuppie neighborhood next door... even kids out in the country get the precious snowflake treatment: moms wait in their SUV's with their kids at the bus stop... r u effing kidding me ? let the useless crybabies wait in the rain and heat instead of coddling in the car... that's the other thing -not just kids- but adults have lost the ability to dress appropriately for the weather; if they aren't in their air-conditioned shiny metal boxes, or in the a-c'ed office, etc; they suffer, because they don't know how to dress for heat, or cold, or rain... hot house flowers who couldn't -and wouldn't want to!- survive a day without their modern conveniences...
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well, he'll be happy to know...
what would be the equivalent to a 'streisand effect' where you previously didn't know of a person's existence, but now that they've made themselves obnoxiously known, you decide you hate them ? ? ?
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the south was settled by a lot of scots, and a bunch in louisiana, as it turns out...
e.g. shaquille O'Neal is NOT an uncommon scots name among blacks, there are a LOT of 'scots' named blacks...
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under the present regime of Empire IT WOULD NOT MATTER if there was a 'war krimes' tribunal, because it would be run by the war kriminals...
no, IF they had one, it would be to legally lynch the mannings, snowdens, assanges, etc of the world; the true puppetmasters behind this horror show would not be in the docket...
sorry, the ONLY WAY that is actually going to happen, is Empire must fall, first... otherwise, it is an exercise in futility trying to convict the kriminal uberklass by laws, courts, and processes THEY CONTROL...
the sooner the fall, the gentler for all...
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that's okay, we'll defend your rights along with ours even if you are too chickenshit to do so...
no thanks necessary...
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wow, great writing, great analysis...
concise, clear writing style, laying out some unknown and semi-complex issues in an easy-to-digest fashion...
*AND* salient commentary and speculation, too...
good stuff...
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grrr
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Re: Re: So which laws are actually still valid?
HERE is the common thread in all these issues:
you either believe:
A. the 'best and brightest' in the positions of power are simply fucking up, not knowing what they are doing, stupid beyond belief, ill-informed, and unable to discern just what in tarnation the 99% want...
or,
B. these guys and dolls know EXACTLY what they are doing, which is FEIGN concern, talk the talk, lead without followers, and bend EVERY law, fund, tax-break, and advantage to the 1% puppetmasters...
no doubt, there *are* some idiots, fools, and tools who are used by the puppetmasters of Empire, but the ones making the rules and running the show know EXACTLY what they are doing to fuck over the 1% EVERY FUCKING DAY...
do you understand the depths of their perfidy and corruption ? ? ?
a lying scumbag like brennan is a FUCKING HERO to Empire ! ! ! he will be REWARDED, just like all the torturers and legal whores who ignored law and morality to torture and kill for Empire: REWARDED, not prosecuted...
HOW MANY TIMES do you have to see that pattern repeated before you get what's going on ? ? ?
the sleeper must awaken...
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which is one reason a lot of rich/dodgy folks relocate to florida and build a zillion dollar home: it is untouchable when/if their scumbag machinations get a civil judgment against them...
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Re: Luke
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hell, our grandmonster going into 2nd grade has that listed as one of the goals on their learning for that year...
i guess 2nd grade qualifies as 'advanced' to this yabo...
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Re: Re: So, if US Law applies everywhere...
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how do they expect to make money doing THAT...
everyone knows you only make money by threatening people, extorting money for useless products, gatekeeping 'intellectual property', and collecting rents for merely existing...
*sheesh*
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precisely, if it isn't done explicitly, it is done by non-enforcement on the ruling klasses...
perhaps the sheeple should take note that puppetmasters can wreck world economies and rake in trillions of ill-gotten gains, ruining countless lives, and waltz away to orchestral music...
99%-ers -especially the browner, poorer ones- can look squinty-eyed at The Man, and they get rousted, persecuted, or summarily executed...
all perfectly legal and justified, of course...
why ? well, 'cause, fuck you, is why...
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do you have any personal experience with these systems, or is it your opinion that we should migrate to those types of systems for de-centralized control reasons ?
i have looked into some of the sat systems (ubiquiti, or some sort of weird spelling TLTG (too lazy to google)), and *still* not sure what putting together a viable rural system would entail... maybe if i went to a paid seminar they would say... no time, no dime...
IF you have personal experience, i would be interested in picking your brain on the subject... thanks
a r t g u e r r i l l a a t w i n d s t r e a m d o t n e t
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2. sorry, but 90-99% of the time, jackn is not only richtig, he is NOT being 'cynical', but REALISTIC...
3. we can ooo-and-ahh all we want that we 'discovered' (what? are you 2-year olds that you didn't think this all along?) that kongresskritters staffers are made of human beans! wow, who would have thunk it ! ! !
...but that means NOTHING in the overall scheme of things; as she points out herself in a later post, ALL their 'good' work comes to naught when it is shit-canned 'cause some unknown fat cat puts in the word: you are only allowed crumbs of legislation which helps the 99% when there is no one's ox being gored...
guess how often that happens ? ? ?
no, THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN, i don't care HOW MANY 'good' people you have being corrupted by it, it WILL NOT WORK for the 99% under the present regime...
i'm sorry, CYNICISM is called for, NOT a capitulation or even admission of defeat; to me, it is being REALISTIC, not simply spouting some pollyanna-ish, rah-rah bullshit for the sake of 'morale'...
we 99% must go to EXTREME measures to even get legislation favorable to our interests CONSIDERED, much less a snowballs chance in hell of passing: THAT RIGHT THERE should tell you all you need to know: the system is NOT working for us, but the 1%...
but, heh, let's ignore reality and just click our heels together three times, and say, 'there's no place like the constitution, there's no place like the constitution...'
THAT will be just as effective...
color me another cynic who doubts anything substantive will get done until Empire falls...
the sooner the fall, the gentler for all...
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ANY and ALL secret institutions WILL become corrupted, end of story...
everything is privatized or secret-ized, and/or the crimes against the people and against the state have become legalized: legalized bribery, legalized influence peddling, legalized propaganda, legalized gerrymandering, legalized monopolies, legalized lying, legalized cheating, and legalized stealing...
all 100% legal for the 1%; and 100% born off the backs of the 99%...
why do the heathen rage ? ? ?
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in *this* particular case, i won't say i disagree with whatever's assessment of amazon; BUT, given the his story of constantly making assertions with no real citation, AND running away when called out, it is not unreasonable to excoriate him/her for that...
as for his/her so-called aversion to 'personal attacks', that is bullshit on several levels; and almost ALWAYS an indication the poster is a bot who has NO INTEREST in debate, but only in being propaganda botz...
approximately 90-99% of the time...
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one thing i learned from reading some otherwise boring bidness bullshit in the series of books 'passion for excellence', etc, was that in order 'to succeed', YOU MUST FAIL, MANY times...
there is NO SUCH THING as 'perfect innovation' with no mistakes: you WILL FAIL a LOT before you get to just the right combination which works...
smart companies EMBRACE 'failure', in that they realize you WILL have to fail before you succeed, and so 'allow' for failure IS an option...
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we kids ran around outside ALL THE TIME unattended, unsupervised, unadulted in any way, shape or form, from the time we could walk... *especially* during summer...
and when we got bikes, forget about it, we were gone baby gone... we went ALL OVER the place, down by the railroad tracks, over to the university, down to the candy store, whenever, wherever we wanted...
my mom was not lax in any manner of speaking (for example, we had to learn our times tables by heart up to 12x12 before we could get a bike, she taught us to read before we started school, etc), but she didn't give our 'dangerous freedom' a second thought, just wasn't an issue, either privately or publicly...
precious snowflakes now ? shit, they can barely tie their own shoes without an adult; never made (much less eaten) a mud pie; couldn't fix their own bike if you spotted them a bike shop; and couldn't find their way across the street without a GPS...
i'm pissed i go by a yuppie school on my commute every morning, and if that school has 500 students, it takes 600 fat SUV's to get them there from the yuppie neighborhood next door... even kids out in the country get the precious snowflake treatment: moms wait in their SUV's with their kids at the bus stop...
r u effing kidding me ? let the useless crybabies wait in the rain and heat instead of coddling in the car...
that's the other thing -not just kids- but adults have lost the ability to dress appropriately for the weather; if they aren't in their air-conditioned shiny metal boxes, or in the a-c'ed office, etc; they suffer, because they don't know how to dress for heat, or cold, or rain...
hot house flowers who couldn't -and wouldn't want to!- survive a day without their modern conveniences...
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