good choice to remain a non cow... if you have a stem job, employers may not be impressed with your global climate change bona fides, and may question your rational thinking in general..
1. solar initiative flew beneath the radar for the most part, the only ads were korporate pro-amendment ads, which were kind of weird, which is what made me prick my ears up about it... 2. until my spidey sense tingled because of the weird ads, didn't know what it was about, but took about 5 minutes of googling to figure out it was a stalking horse for Big Energy... 3. as far as that goes, *MOST* people i talked with about did NOT know it was a let's-help-korporations-screw-us-over amendment, UNTIL they took a look at it at the last minute... 4. further, i know my m-in-law mistakenly voted FOR it when she certainly was opposed to it once she found out what it was... 5. *of course*, one of the main problems, is that people saw 'solar' in the amendment, thought for sure it was something positive which benefited us 99%, but it was only when you delved into the details that you *might* figure out it was a protectionist scheme for Big Energy... the usual sham and scam of naming something 'Free Beer', when it turns out we are protecting Big Beer with our monies...
1. depends on whether you believe in the rule of law or not... hillary just recently proclaimed she did... it was a sick joke to watch, akin to obomber, kissinger, etc getting nobel peace prizes... 2. IF you believe in the rule of law, she should be in jail... there is NO DOUBT she broke numerous laws IN THE EMAIL case alone; there is NO DOUBT, you, i, ed snowden, or anyone else but power elite cronies could get away with such bullshit as 'didn't have intent', DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER... (only in a limited aspect, legally for sentencing purposes) 3. klinton klavern foundation is rotten to the core... 4. your 'analysis' of how contemporary his story DID NOT happen is bizarre, and i thought perhaps sarcastic, but it reads earnestly... obama studiously AVOIDED ANY and ALL investigations of any number of things that he not only retroactively approved of, but furthered Empire and its horror more than most... you CAN NOT be for the rule of law, and let these illegal activities at the highest level go by, ESPECIALLY if you persecute the RIGHTFUL and RIGHTEOUS whistleblowing actions of others...
isn't he the faux liberal who does commercials for scumbag payday loansharks, and a mediawhore to boot ? ? ? i care what a shill for payday loansharks says ? ? ?
hee hee hee you sly dog... as kampers may know, adobe REALLY does not want to 'sell' the software, they want to get you on yhe hook to 'subscribe' for approximately a pound of flesh per month... as it so happens, my work provides this suite, but i really only use a very small subset of cmds for my work, but i might be interested in these tuts to get a better handle on using more features...
Re: "This isn't a post to mock Ben...as he mocked us."
cavil alert ! actually, petard would technically not be pronounced with a hard 'd' unless there was an 'e' after the 'd'... but the point is still valid, if not the rhyme... i would further mention he IS a fucking tard if he doesnt realize that WE ALL are being spied on, only he is a suckup to Empire, so saurons evil eye will not be trained on him... they are still slurping up all his info, just The They wont do a ything about it unless he steps out of line...
thanks for the point EVERYONE seems to be eliding: obama and/or hillary have been staunch defenders of free speech/1st amendment issues ? uh, no... further, do not the dem'rats/hillary have ANY responsibility to tell THEIR FOLLOWERS to stand down and accept the election results... again, if the shoe were on the other foot, you would be decrying t-rump's followers for not accepting if hillary won, but it doesn't work vice versa ? ? ? (rhetorical question: everything t-rump and followers do is execreble no matter what; dem'rats and hillary followers can exhibit the EXACT same behavior and they get a free pass... well, that's fair...) what t-rump has shown me is that hypocrites abound... the pearl-clutching and hysteria of the FAKE pwogwessives is disgusting, just as their vast left wing media konspiracy to demonize t-rump was disgusting... i think he is a buffoon and a pig, but the media pile-on made me actually sympathetic to him... THE MEDIA is more an enemy of mine than fucking t-rump...
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geez, do we have to explain the principles of true free speech for the thousandth time ? ? ? i recall when i was young-n-stupid (repetitive redundancy alert), it took me a handful of days reading and re-reading a passage of chomsky trying to get my head around it... the bottom line is, YOU CAN NOT censor/stifle/restrict or otherwise hide people's speech because you don't like it... PER-I-FUCKING-OD... you MUST defend your worst enemies right to spout their most hateful, vile, disgusting words, OR YOU ARE NOT FOR FREE SPEECH... (NOTE: as chomsky had to make clear for the idiots in the studio audience: this does NOT MEAN you 'agree' with the speech, it merely means you defend their RIGHT to say stupid shit...) you are 'for' speech you like, you are 'for' pretty speech, you are 'for' speech you agree with, you are 'for' harmless speech; BUT YOU ARE MOST DEFINITELY NOT FOR FREE SPEECH when you start down the idiotic road of 'hate speech' and 'hate crimes'... THERE IS NO SUCH THING: there are crimes, and there is hate: if someone murders me, do i really care if they loved me or hated me ? ? ? oh, you love me ? oh, okay, then murdering me was ok then... love you too ! ! ! xxoo don't be daft, punks...
bear in mind (paraphrasing) freddy douglass's quote: power never devolves voluntarily...
hmmm, ok, now what ? ? ?
voting for (t-rump/killary) will solve these problems ? ? ? ...or exacerbate ? ? ?
well, (meta-ironically) fortunately and unfortunately, at the same time, Empire is both reaching its peak and falling, at the same time... hard rain coming... based on a true story...
yeah, just voted at lunchtime, and polling place had signs about turning off cell phones, and i asked old geezer there if that was 'legal' (a pretty much meaningless word mow), and he just burbled some inanity... no particular interest in taking pix of ballot, but the principle of the thing was annoying...
thank you, i have no love lost for gore whore, but he was blindsided by that little bit of propaganda; AND the FACT IS, he WAS an early champion of the darpanet which evolved into the inertnet tubes we use today, it is -IN FACT- NOT unfair to say he was instrumental in getting the inertnet started... (CERTAINLY, 1000 times moreso than any braying rethugs who who tried to smear him with that canard...)
NOTHING will come of it... they are above the law, and will continue to do the same illegal acts, they will just be rendered 'legal' by the stroke of a pen on a secret piece of paper no one can see...
don't be daft, punk: NEITHER of the two hydra heads of the one and only Korporate Money Party want to 'fix' the electoral college and the broken election systems we suffer under... (it is already fixed to their liking) the absolute proof : IF they really were interested in election integrity, WHAT/WHO has been stopping them lo these countless decades ? ? ? no, the ONLY rational conclusion is that The They WANT a broken systrm they control behind the curtains...
i will stipulate he is a true nerd and did some email thingy of some sort... but, i REALLY cant get my head around the factoid that HE must know he is full of shit, but insists otherwise... um, that puts him squarely in psychopath territory, as far as i am concerned...
1. by their works, you shall know them... you have consistently proven yourself an abject authoritarian, no 'possible' about it... 2. you constantly beat the drum of fear, Fear, FEAR ! ! ! that ANY POTENTIAL threat is treated as both real and inevitable, when most such fears are highly exaggerated if not simply made up... (you are SERIOUSLY and TRULY frightened you might run across this guy and he will take a cracker out ? seriously ? you need some long overdue fear calibration...) 3. it is to larf: i been excoriating authoritarians online since before most all of techdirtia was born... i am 60sumpin... my heart still burns for, still yearns for justice... 4. again, my main point is, you dont give a shit about the rule of law, you want what you wsnt, regardless of the law...
@ Big Wheeler- proving for the hundredth time you are an unAmerican authoritarian who does NOT give a shit about the rule of law, only what widdle wheeler wants... ultimately, you are just a big scaredy cat crybaby...
i mean, IF they had a name like SAGAFTRASucksDonkeyKongBalls, i can see that being obvious parody/etc; BUT, a more conventional name WHICH DOES NOT GIVE AWAY THE PARODY GAME, and where the CONTENT makes it clear they are not SAGAFTRA seems like a valid claim to me... IF someone made a TechDirtIsFullOfCommies site, i would say obvious parody/fair use; but TechDirtOpEds or something, could very well 'fool' me, and not even in a hurry... besides being a jerk move, i think it traduces their name as well...
you ain't from around these here parts, are ya pardner ? ? ? we got small-dee democracy in name only, the korporations call the tune, and we dance a jig for them... that is obviously the best possible world for all concerned....
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(tomorrow, you are back to being a dirt bag... 8^)
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as a floridian, couple points to add...
2. until my spidey sense tingled because of the weird ads, didn't know what it was about, but took about 5 minutes of googling to figure out it was a stalking horse for Big Energy...
3. as far as that goes, *MOST* people i talked with about did NOT know it was a let's-help-korporations-screw-us-over amendment, UNTIL they took a look at it at the last minute...
4. further, i know my m-in-law mistakenly voted FOR it when she certainly was opposed to it once she found out what it was...
5. *of course*, one of the main problems, is that people saw 'solar' in the amendment, thought for sure it was something positive which benefited us 99%, but it was only when you delved into the details that you *might* figure out it was a protectionist scheme for Big Energy...
the usual sham and scam of naming something 'Free Beer', when it turns out we are protecting Big Beer with our monies...
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2. IF you believe in the rule of law, she should be in jail... there is NO DOUBT she broke numerous laws IN THE EMAIL case alone; there is NO DOUBT, you, i, ed snowden, or anyone else but power elite cronies could get away with such bullshit as 'didn't have intent', DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER...
(only in a limited aspect, legally for sentencing purposes)
3. klinton klavern foundation is rotten to the core...
4. your 'analysis' of how contemporary his story DID NOT happen is bizarre, and i thought perhaps sarcastic, but it reads earnestly...
obama studiously AVOIDED ANY and ALL investigations of any number of things that he not only retroactively approved of, but furthered Empire and its horror more than most...
you CAN NOT be for the rule of law, and let these illegal activities at the highest level go by, ESPECIALLY if you persecute the RIGHTFUL and RIGHTEOUS whistleblowing actions of others...
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van jones ? ? ?
i care what a shill for payday loansharks says ? ? ?
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Re: Doesn’t Actually Include The Software
you sly dog...
as kampers may know, adobe REALLY does not want to 'sell' the software, they want to get you on yhe hook to 'subscribe' for approximately a pound of flesh per month...
as it so happens, my work provides this suite, but i really only use a very small subset of cmds for my work, but i might be interested in these tuts to get a better handle on using more features...
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Re: "This isn't a post to mock Ben...as he mocked us."
actually, petard would technically not be pronounced with a hard 'd' unless there was an 'e' after the 'd'...
but the point is still valid, if not the rhyme...
i would further mention he IS a fucking tard if he doesnt realize that WE ALL are being spied on, only he is a suckup to Empire, so saurons evil eye will not be trained on him...
they are still slurping up all his info, just The They wont do a ything about it unless he steps out of line...
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uh, no...
further, do not the dem'rats/hillary have ANY responsibility to tell THEIR FOLLOWERS to stand down and accept the election results...
again, if the shoe were on the other foot, you would be decrying t-rump's followers for not accepting if hillary won, but it doesn't work vice versa ? ? ?
(rhetorical question: everything t-rump and followers do is execreble no matter what; dem'rats and hillary followers can exhibit the EXACT same behavior and they get a free pass... well, that's fair...)
what t-rump has shown me is that hypocrites abound...
the pearl-clutching and hysteria of the FAKE pwogwessives is disgusting, just as their vast left wing media konspiracy to demonize t-rump was disgusting...
i think he is a buffoon and a pig, but the media pile-on made me actually sympathetic to him... THE MEDIA is more an enemy of mine than fucking t-rump...
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Re: Re: Re: What the hell was the purpose of this law?
i recall when i was young-n-stupid (repetitive redundancy alert), it took me a handful of days reading and re-reading a passage of chomsky trying to get my head around it... the bottom line is, YOU CAN NOT censor/stifle/restrict or otherwise hide people's speech because you don't like it...
PER-I-FUCKING-OD...
you MUST defend your worst enemies right to spout their most hateful, vile, disgusting words, OR YOU ARE NOT FOR FREE SPEECH...
(NOTE: as chomsky had to make clear for the idiots in the studio audience: this does NOT MEAN you 'agree' with the speech, it merely means you defend their RIGHT to say stupid shit...)
you are 'for' speech you like, you are 'for' pretty speech, you are 'for' speech you agree with, you are 'for' harmless speech; BUT YOU ARE MOST DEFINITELY NOT FOR FREE SPEECH when you start down the idiotic road of 'hate speech' and 'hate crimes'...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING: there are crimes, and there is hate: if someone murders me, do i really care if they loved me or hated me ? ? ? oh, you love me ? oh, okay, then murdering me was ok then... love you too ! ! ! xxoo
don't be daft, punks...
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Re: and ? ? ?
bear in mind (paraphrasing) freddy douglass's quote: power never devolves voluntarily...
hmmm, ok, now what ? ? ?
voting for (t-rump/killary) will solve these problems ? ? ?
...or exacerbate ? ? ?
well, (meta-ironically) fortunately and unfortunately, at the same time, Empire is both reaching its peak and falling, at the same time...
hard rain coming...
based on a true story...
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no particular interest in taking pix of ballot, but the principle of the thing was annoying...
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Re: Re: Easy to dispell
(CERTAINLY, 1000 times moreso than any braying rethugs who who tried to smear him with that canard...)
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...and ? ? ?
they are above the law, and will continue to do the same illegal acts, they will just be rendered 'legal' by the stroke of a pen on a secret piece of paper no one can see...
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the absolute proof : IF they really were interested in election integrity, WHAT/WHO has been stopping them lo these countless decades ? ? ?
no, the ONLY rational conclusion is that The They WANT a broken systrm they control behind the curtains...
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welcome to Empire, citizen ! ! !
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heres the thing...
but, i REALLY cant get my head around the factoid that HE must know he is full of shit, but insists otherwise...
um, that puts him squarely in psychopath territory, as far as i am concerned...
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2. you constantly beat the drum of fear, Fear, FEAR ! ! ! that ANY POTENTIAL threat is treated as both real and inevitable, when most such fears are highly exaggerated if not simply made up... (you are SERIOUSLY and TRULY frightened you might run across this guy and he will take a cracker out ? seriously ? you need some long overdue fear calibration...)
3. it is to larf: i been excoriating authoritarians online since before most all of techdirtia was born... i am 60sumpin... my heart still burns for, still yearns for justice...
4. again, my main point is, you dont give a shit about the rule of law, you want what you wsnt, regardless of the law...
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proving for the hundredth time you are an unAmerican authoritarian who does NOT give a shit about the rule of law, only what widdle wheeler wants...
ultimately, you are just a big scaredy cat crybaby...
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i don't know...
IF someone made a TechDirtIsFullOfCommies site, i would say obvious parody/fair use; but TechDirtOpEds or something, could very well 'fool' me, and not even in a hurry...
besides being a jerk move, i think it traduces their name as well...
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we got small-dee democracy in name only, the korporations call the tune, and we dance a jig for them...
that is obviously the best possible world for all concerned....
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