actually, to set the record straight, cliton was -as per usual- trying to be too clever by half, he was *trying* to indicate in a smartass way, that he had -technically- never 'smoked' MJ, but he had eaten MJ-laced brownies, etc... from what i read, though, he was a hoover when it came to cocaine...
1. cops are killed on the job the least since the 1800's, dickhead... 2. retail clerks (slightly more), firefighters (about 2X's as much), and cabbies (about 4-5X's as much) are killed on the job MORE than donut eaters, authoritarian suckup... 3. NO ONE keeps track of the citizens MURDERED by 'roid-raging robo-kops, why is that, dickless moron ? ? ? 4. you are approx 8-10 times more likely to be MURDERED by a kop, than a terrorist, you supine wormtongued dingleberry...
kops are not the ones 'in danger', CITIZENS are, you worthless sack of putrid protoplasm...
...but still can't reason their way out of a wet paper bag if you spotted them a knife...
this bit you hightlighed: In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists (and their labels) place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace.
demonstrates she didn't give this issue 5 minutes of serious thought, otherwise, she might wonder about this: Artiste A puts years and years of 'heart and soul' they 'bled' into a body of work, AND they 'place a financial value' on their work... (WTF does 'place a financial value' mean, EXACTLY ?)
but NOBODY buys it /wants it, NO matter how much the Artiste has bled on it... (and/or IN SPITE of their 'heart and soul' leached into their work, it could STILL BE CRAP!)
Artiste B has someone else create the material they perform (very little to zero of their personal 'heart and soul' is sacrificed), tear off a 20 minute recording session (very little blood involved), but it is championed by Big Music Corp, gets on all the playlists, and becomes a 'hit'...
obviously, the 'effort' or amount of 'heart and soul' in the work is TOTALLY BESIDE THE POINT, otherwise Artiste A should be a zillionaire, and Artiste B in the remainder bin...
that ain't how it works, must be something else going on as well...
that while we are not technically 'at war', we ARE -technically- STILL in the same 'state of emergency' that was declared after nine one one, and has been renewed ever since... allows the Emperor to do ALL sorts of nasty stuff 'legally', if he gets a mind to do so...
...to confront and cross-examine your 'accusers' doesn't mean anything when the 'accuser' is a dog, does it ? ? ? (not that it means a whole hell of a lot, now, period...)
i will say that there are *some* potential remedies in the proposal that i can support, but i doubt would pass legal muster: having the small contributor money 'leveraged' by matching gummint 'donations' times 9-10, for example...
HOWEVER, i don't know how/if it could withstand a legal challenge: WHY isn't rich people's speech/money worthy of having matching funds too ? (AND GIVEN the present perverted system, i don't know why not, either, AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE...)
i just hate: using IMMORAL means to combat said immoral means, makes me feel icky, I AM (whether corporadoes do) supposed to have morals and ethical strictures, i will NOT abandon them for convenience...
i just don't see us 99% out-bidding the 1% who have the money, the power, the media, the law, the courts, the EVERYTHING amenable to THEIR demands, not ours...
sorry, i've given up on changing a corrupt system by using a corrupt system; nothing short of a constitutional convention (which could be hijacked by the 1%), or a revolution (bloody or totherwise) can stop this self-perpetuating, inhuman, and inhumane Empire...
outbidding the puppetmasters ? i just don't see it... someone run the numbers for me, but i bet it is literally impossible to out-bid them...
when a card sharp is cheating you, you don't try to out-cheat him, you take out your Colt and ventilate him...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt is on the wrong side of this
whoa there, THE constitution GAVE NO RIGHTS TO CORPORATIONS, PER-I-OD, FULL STOP. you don't need to go any further than that to demolish your 'argument'... not to mention, back in the day when our forefathers were contemplating these 'rights', corporations were tightly leashed, relatively rarely granted charters to perform some specific task THAT HAD TO BENEFIT THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, NOT just generate profit for private parties...
if you haven't noticed, THAT situation has been TURNED ON ITS HEAD, and it is the corporate-tail that is wagging the dog-state: IT IS TOTALLY PERVERTED...
@ TimH- preface: OF COURSE, i am 100% for changing the CORRUPTED present system, however, i think it is beyond salvation at this point by working within 'The (corrupt) System'...
1. thanks for response, and so i *did* go and look at their 'manifesto', etc; and -in general- my points are STILL salient and valid... frankly, i saw NOTHING of substance which contradicts my original perception of this naive effort... 2. this is their pollyanna-ish vision of how this is going to work: step 1 elect 'good' kongresskritters... well, gosh, why didn't anyone think of that before, geez, do i feel stooopid; step 2 Win Majority of kongresskritters!, oh, its that simple, gosh, i feel even stooopider; step 3 make a law! damn, why didn't we idiot sheeple think of that!; step 4 change constitution to keep future evil minions of doom from changing back to bad old ways, brilliant ! ! ! easy peasy japanesy... *snort*
? ? ? ALL OF THIS BEGS THE QUESTION: HOW are you going to elect 'reform-minded' kongresskritters when we can be out-bid at every turn ? ? ? *AS IF* 'we' have not been trying already ? ? ?
i'm sorry, i'm left shaking my head at this 'hey gang, let's put on a show!' bullshit... AS IF there already aren't a majority of kongresskritters who would agree that -yes- the system is broken, and -yes- it should be 'fixed'... but it doesn't get fixed, does it ? ? ?
let' say you elect super-boy scouts who have 'pledged' (said 'pledge' meaning NOTHING, by the way) to pursue real election reform... what are they going to do, beat up the old kongresskritters who are holding up reform, blackmail them (prob the most effective method), hold their dog hostage ? ? ? WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO DIFFERENTLY that has not already been done ? ? ? WHAT SPECIFICALLY ? ? ?
no, this is nothing but a simpleton chamberlain heading out to be snookered by a couple hundred hitlers...
the 1% are simply going to fold their cards and let THEIR kongresskritters be bought out from under them ? ? ?
not to mention: using immoral methods to combat that SAME immorality ? ? ? no, you have lost your way if you go down that road...
THE major problem with a number of these 'CSI' type real and bullshit tests of evidence, is that it is primarily controlled by the state, one way or the other...
1. they rely a LOT on the *SUPPOSED* trustworthiness, honor, integrity, blah blah blah, of the police, the court, the justice dept, the forensics lab, the technicians, etc...
shut the fuck up: institutions are made of people, people ARE venal, desperate and corruptible, thus: ALL secret organizations WILL become CORRUPTED, per-i-fucking-od. this ESPECIALLY includes so-called 'internal reviews', etc, which will ALWAYS devolve into covering up, rather than exposing perfidy and corruption...
EXACTLY why there has to be OUTSIDE oversight to EVERYTHING 'OUR' (sic) gummint does, in our name, with our money...
2. *most* defendants will NOT have the money or resources to 'compete' with the state on state-of-the-art lab tests to refute or mitigate such evidence brought against them... not only will *most* NOT be able to afford the $1000/day experts, etc; *most* of said experts are under pressure to NOT testify in cases contrary to The State's interest...
3. there is TOO MUCH reliance on some 'scientific evidence' which is amenable to being either fudged, or not presented realistically... DNA evidence is often presented as 'infallible', and since stupid sheeple believe whatever the conventional wisdom is, they don't know that it is not as cut-and-dried as made out... so it has evolved that DNA=guilty, no matter the 'real' statistics paint a more ambiguous picture... not to mention the real possibility of planting DNA evidence after-the-fact... how long before donut-eaters start carrying 'drop-DNA' of their local perps ? ? ?
i don't have the same reasons, but have to agree with kenichi on this one: OUT-BRIBING the puppetmasters to take over a system THEY corrupted and co-opted, so WE can (automagically?) dismantle and re-make it ? really? joe/jane sixpack are going to drain THEIR funds in THIS economy, and STILL not compete with the puppetmasters, who are using chump change they found in the couch of their 10th home ? ? ? sure, that's fair: 'buy back/out-bid' the corrupters, AND pay THEM, AND STILL not get any traction...
say, i've got a great idea: why don't we take a critical service most people desperately need, and privatize it, make it mandatory, AND keep the major reason for high costs in effective control of the system, the services and the prices... ain't that a great idea too ? sheeple, hoodwinked and they don't even realize it...
@ whatever: urine idjit... i have used tor approximately 5-6 times, mostly just to play with it, and EVERY SINGLE USAGE was 'legal' and had NOTHING to do with criminal activity of any sort...
was using some torrents to download stuff manufacturers SHOULD HAVE PROVIDED, but did not: a repair manual for a car, a manual for something else, a couple musicians giving away their music, etc...
really, HOW FUCKING STUPID ARE YOU: IF your criteria is 'someone onceded did something not-nice with a tor (or fill in the blank) so we must banhammer it to smithereens, THERE WOULD BE NOTHING LEFT ON THE PLANET...
in fact, oog once hit boog on the head with a rock, so we can't even have the planet, its simply too dangerous...
go curl up in a ball and pee your panties; the rest of us want to live a life unencumbered by the stupidity of the lowest common denominator...
Re: Face it, there are very few telecommunications co. that people -like-
EXACTLY why telecom companies SHOULD be a state-provided service (like insurance)... hell, i'm about to go full-bore commie in reaction to the unrestrained capitalist imperialism shitty system 'we' have now...
you've identified the unstated assumption: the creative output of the 7+BEEEEELIONS (as the register would say) is NOTHING, they ONLY 'care' about the output of Big Media, the rest of us can go piss up a rope...
i have no doubt that Big Media will be advantaged in EVERY instance, and the hoi polloi relegated to crumbs, as per usual...
as i understand it, non-profits are purposefully and especially forbidden from -effectively- commenting on, taking positions on, or otherwise proselytizing virtually ANY political or contemporary issue, OR you lose your non-profit status and become an 'advocacy' group... ...and it IS purposeful to SHUT UP such groups, and keep them having as little public influence as possible...
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Re:
from what i read, though, he was a hoover when it came to cocaine...
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Re: The citizen have caused their own problems
1. cops are killed on the job the least since the 1800's, dickhead...
2. retail clerks (slightly more), firefighters (about 2X's as much), and cabbies (about 4-5X's as much) are killed on the job MORE than donut eaters, authoritarian suckup...
3. NO ONE keeps track of the citizens MURDERED by 'roid-raging robo-kops, why is that, dickless moron ? ? ?
4. you are approx 8-10 times more likely to be MURDERED by a kop, than a terrorist, you supine wormtongued dingleberry...
kops are not the ones 'in danger', CITIZENS are, you worthless sack of putrid protoplasm...
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
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*sigh* rich, pretty-ish, privileged upbringing...
this bit you hightlighed:
In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists (and their labels) place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace.
demonstrates she didn't give this issue 5 minutes of serious thought, otherwise, she might wonder about this: Artiste A puts years and years of 'heart and soul' they 'bled' into a body of work, AND they 'place a financial value' on their work... (WTF does 'place a financial value' mean, EXACTLY ?)
but NOBODY buys it /wants it, NO matter how much the Artiste has bled on it... (and/or IN SPITE of their 'heart and soul' leached into their work, it could STILL BE CRAP!)
Artiste B has someone else create the material they perform (very little to zero of their personal 'heart and soul' is sacrificed), tear off a 20 minute recording session (very little blood involved), but it is championed by Big Music Corp, gets on all the playlists, and becomes a 'hit'...
obviously, the 'effort' or amount of 'heart and soul' in the work is TOTALLY BESIDE THE POINT, otherwise Artiste A should be a zillionaire, and Artiste B in the remainder bin...
that ain't how it works, must be something else going on as well...
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i will remind kampers...
allows the Emperor to do ALL sorts of nasty stuff 'legally', if he gets a mind to do so...
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and the 'right'...
(not that it means a whole hell of a lot, now, period...)
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here is why they are ALL scumbags...
NOT ONE, even the few who are 'good guys' on this or that particular issue are going to 'embarrass' their fellow scumbags, are they ? ? ?
tells you all you need to know about 'our' (sic) failed gummint...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
HOWEVER, i don't know how/if it could withstand a legal challenge: WHY isn't rich people's speech/money worthy of having matching funds too ?
(AND GIVEN the present perverted system, i don't know why not, either, AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE...)
i just hate:
using IMMORAL means to combat said immoral means, makes me feel icky, I AM (whether corporadoes do) supposed to have morals and ethical strictures, i will NOT abandon them for convenience...
i just don't see us 99% out-bidding the 1% who have the money, the power, the media, the law, the courts, the EVERYTHING amenable to THEIR demands, not ours...
sorry, i've given up on changing a corrupt system by using a corrupt system; nothing short of a constitutional convention (which could be hijacked by the 1%), or a revolution (bloody or totherwise) can stop this self-perpetuating, inhuman, and inhumane Empire...
outbidding the puppetmasters ? i just don't see it... someone run the numbers for me, but i bet it is literally impossible to out-bid them...
when a card sharp is cheating you, you don't try to out-cheat him, you take out your Colt and ventilate him...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt is on the wrong side of this
you don't need to go any further than that to demolish your 'argument'...
not to mention, back in the day when our forefathers were contemplating these 'rights', corporations were tightly leashed, relatively rarely granted charters to perform some specific task THAT HAD TO BENEFIT THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, NOT just generate profit for private parties...
if you haven't noticed, THAT situation has been TURNED ON ITS HEAD, and it is the corporate-tail that is wagging the dog-state: IT IS TOTALLY PERVERTED...
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Re: Re: Re:
preface: OF COURSE, i am 100% for changing the CORRUPTED present system, however, i think it is beyond salvation at this point by working within 'The (corrupt) System'...
1. thanks for response, and so i *did* go and look at their 'manifesto', etc; and -in general- my points are STILL salient and valid... frankly, i saw NOTHING of substance which contradicts my original perception of this naive effort...
2. this is their pollyanna-ish vision of how this is going to work: step 1 elect 'good' kongresskritters... well, gosh, why didn't anyone think of that before, geez, do i feel stooopid; step 2 Win Majority of kongresskritters!, oh, its that simple, gosh, i feel even stooopider; step 3 make a law! damn, why didn't we idiot sheeple think of that!; step 4 change constitution to keep future evil minions of doom from changing back to bad old ways, brilliant ! ! !
easy peasy japanesy...
*snort*
? ? ? ALL OF THIS BEGS THE QUESTION: HOW are you going to elect 'reform-minded' kongresskritters when we can be out-bid at every turn ? ? ? *AS IF* 'we' have not been trying already ? ? ?
i'm sorry, i'm left shaking my head at this 'hey gang, let's put on a show!' bullshit... AS IF there already aren't a majority of kongresskritters who would agree that -yes- the system is broken, and -yes- it should be 'fixed'...
but it doesn't get fixed, does it ? ? ?
let' say you elect super-boy scouts who have 'pledged' (said 'pledge' meaning NOTHING, by the way) to pursue real election reform... what are they going to do, beat up the old kongresskritters who are holding up reform, blackmail them (prob the most effective method), hold their dog hostage ? ? ? WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO DIFFERENTLY that has not already been done ? ? ? WHAT SPECIFICALLY ? ? ?
no, this is nothing but a simpleton chamberlain heading out to be snookered by a couple hundred hitlers...
the 1% are simply going to fold their cards and let THEIR kongresskritters be bought out from under them ? ? ?
not to mention: using immoral methods to combat that SAME immorality ? ? ? no, you have lost your way if you go down that road...
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Re: Re:
1. they rely a LOT on the *SUPPOSED* trustworthiness, honor, integrity, blah blah blah, of the police, the court, the justice dept, the forensics lab, the technicians, etc...
shut the fuck up: institutions are made of people, people ARE venal, desperate and corruptible, thus: ALL secret organizations WILL become CORRUPTED, per-i-fucking-od.
this ESPECIALLY includes so-called 'internal reviews', etc, which will ALWAYS devolve into covering up, rather than exposing perfidy and corruption...
EXACTLY why there has to be OUTSIDE oversight to EVERYTHING 'OUR' (sic) gummint does, in our name, with our money...
2. *most* defendants will NOT have the money or resources to 'compete' with the state on state-of-the-art lab tests to refute or mitigate such evidence brought against them...
not only will *most* NOT be able to afford the $1000/day experts, etc; *most* of said experts are under pressure to NOT testify in cases contrary to The State's interest...
3. there is TOO MUCH reliance on some 'scientific evidence' which is amenable to being either fudged, or not presented realistically... DNA evidence is often presented as 'infallible', and since stupid sheeple believe whatever the conventional wisdom is, they don't know that it is not as cut-and-dried as made out...
so it has evolved that DNA=guilty, no matter the 'real' statistics paint a more ambiguous picture... not to mention the real possibility of planting DNA evidence after-the-fact... how long before donut-eaters start carrying 'drop-DNA' of their local perps ? ? ?
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Re: Re:
really? joe/jane sixpack are going to drain THEIR funds in THIS economy, and STILL not compete with the puppetmasters, who are using chump change they found in the couch of their 10th home ? ? ?
sure, that's fair: 'buy back/out-bid' the corrupters, AND pay THEM, AND STILL not get any traction...
say, i've got a great idea: why don't we take a critical service most people desperately need, and privatize it, make it mandatory, AND keep the major reason for high costs in effective control of the system, the services and the prices... ain't that a great idea too ?
sheeple, hoodwinked and they don't even realize it...
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Re: Re: Re:
that'll leave a mark !
oh, wait, its whatevers, he's MAFIAA connected, we can't lay a glove on him...
also, *how* telling is it that a MAFIAA apologist is reduced to making such 'jokes' about THEIR theft of the commons...
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Re: Re: Re: the 1970s
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Re: Re:
we're all sitting ducks, now...
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Re: Re: If Tor users are extremists,
you got that right...
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Re: arm waving frantic
urine idjit...
i have used tor approximately 5-6 times, mostly just to play with it, and EVERY SINGLE USAGE was 'legal' and had NOTHING to do with criminal activity of any sort...
was using some torrents to download stuff manufacturers SHOULD HAVE PROVIDED, but did not: a repair manual for a car, a manual for something else, a couple musicians giving away their music, etc...
really, HOW FUCKING STUPID ARE YOU: IF your criteria is 'someone onceded did something not-nice with a tor (or fill in the blank) so we must banhammer it to smithereens, THERE WOULD BE NOTHING LEFT ON THE PLANET...
in fact, oog once hit boog on the head with a rock, so we can't even have the planet, its simply too dangerous...
go curl up in a ball and pee your panties; the rest of us want to live a life unencumbered by the stupidity of the lowest common denominator...
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Re: Face it, there are very few telecommunications co. that people -like-
hell, i'm about to go full-bore commie in reaction to the unrestrained capitalist imperialism shitty system 'we' have now...
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Re:
i have no doubt that Big Media will be advantaged in EVERY instance, and the hoi polloi relegated to crumbs, as per usual...
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non-profits are non-prophet...
...and it IS purposeful to SHUT UP such groups, and keep them having as little public influence as possible...
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*THAT* is twitter-speak ? ? ?
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