i have a running joke with SWMBO about disciplining kids (she is a teacher and we have grandmonsters), that what we need are 'baby tasers'... ha ha, a little gallows humor, right ? but, these days ? not so sure it is a joke anymore...
uh huh... got one of my sister when she was 1-2 and nekkid as a jay bird, it is a 'funny' picture of her wearing grandpa's boots and looking at his newspaper... but i guess its kiddie pron... got one of myself at a similar age, looking like a little fat, nekkid, baby buddah plopped down in a clothesbasket... more kiddie pron...
dog damn i hate this world... or, rather, i hate a LOT of the idiot nekkid apes on it...
and people wonder why i prefer dogs over nekkid apes...
@ chronny- ...and so, IF taliban 'doctors' came into your neighborhood offering free medical services of some type, AND it subsequently turned out it was all a hoax to entrap someone you never dealt with, WHAT would be YOUR reaction THE NEXT TIME someone/anyone came into your village claiming to be doctors there to help ? ? ? um, the smart and prudent thing to do, would be to kill them... THAT is the evil the spooks have sown (and don't think for ONE SECOND they give a shit...)
don't disagree, but you're not paying attention: much like how the NSA can't spy on Americans (stop laughing!), and get -say- germany to do it for us (and vice versa); NOW, instead of unka sam sending out OUR drones to meta-splat some wayward citizen, they simply get germany to send in THEIR drones and meta-splat us... see, all perfectly legal and shit... nothing to worry about, silly... ALL PERFECTLY LEGAL... just like hitler was...
c'mon kamper, wise up: he is being kept on BECAUSE he does the bidding of The They (tm), it IS really that simple... it don't matter he eats babies for breakfast, he toes the line, he gets rewarded by Empire...
STOP thinking we live in some sort of meritocracy; STOP depending upon a corrupt (in)justice system as a last resort; STOP believing that 'our superiors' are weally, Weally, WEALLY working on behalf of us 99%, EVER; STOP hoping they will -*someday*- 'see the light' and stop fucking us over, that is childish thinking, STOP IT...
IT IS UP TO US TO TAKE OUR DEMOCRACY BACK, The They (tm) are NOT going to give it up voluntarily...
Re: Re: This is really making Wheeler look like a tool of industry
you didn't read the 'sad but true' repost i did about the 'new aristocracy', did you ? ? ?
in short: The They (tm) really don't give a shit, they're taking all our shit, and we aren't saying shit, are we ? ? ? 'cause we're all scared shitless...
on one level, that's all interesting stuff, on another, i don't give a rat's (or mouse's) ass what queen anne or anny one else did in this regard... what i WANT, are contemporary laws which respond to contemporary mores and conditions, NOT favor extortionist gatekeepers to the exclusion of THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT VALUABLE... i can not stress this enough, and it is a common enough theme here: OBSCURITY is the enemy of 'success', not pirating... it is THE COLLECTIVE judgment of us all which makes a widget sell like hotcakes; it is OUR COLLECTIVE DECISIONS to watch a show, listen to a song, read a book, play a video game, etc, etc, etc, that make Big Media zillions... WE make it popular, by the very definition: in fact, it is THE GATEKEEPERS who are stealing (and i DO mean STEALING) OUR CULTURE (such as it is), OUR popular means of expression, OUR art and music and words and EVERYTHING... OURS... give it back...
which quotes J. Michael Straczynski: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid= 760992300602302&id=139652459402959 [facebook.com] THE RULES OF THE NEW ARISTOCRACY It doesn't matter how much food costs increase, doesn't matter if you can only afford fast food, we will always be able to buy steak. And we will invest heavily in fast food stocks to ensure we make money off this. Doesn't matter how much gas costs, we will always be able to afford it. In addition to poor food choices and health coverage, your kids will grow up without proper nutrition which will cause them problems on every level, from physical to educational difficulties. Our kids will grow up straight and true and healthy. It doesn't matter how much an education costs, doesn't matter if your kids can't afford to go to college or come out with massive debt, we will always be able to send our kids to university. And because a lot of our income is derived from tax incentives and taxpayer-financed bailouts your taxes are sending our kids to school. But you do not have the right to any of our money to send your kid to school. If you or your kids want to start a business, you will find that because we've sucked all the money out of the economy, there is simply no available cash around to help you finance your startup. (Unless you want to go to your friends online at sites like Indiegogo, and isn't that just cute?) We just cut our kids a check and tell them to go have fun. Your kids are born with a glass ceiling above which they will almost certainly never have the opportunity to rise. Our kids are born with a marble floor beneath which they will never be allowed to fall. If you accidentally provide incorrect information on your tax return, you could lose your house, your possessions, and your livelihood. We lie all the time on our tax information and none of us ever have to deal with this. We squirrel away trillions of dollars in overseas accounts and do all we can to ensure that your money never leaves our control because we'll doubtless need to scoop out more of it soon. You live in a Company Town; we pay you to work for us, while making sure that we own all the stores in town that sell our goods, the doctors offices where you go in town, the restaurants where you eat, and that we charge you just enough to make sure that at the end of the week you don't have any leftover money to squirrel away, so you can never leave the company town, can never get ahead, and can never risk criticizing the company town. You work for us. We own the town where you live. We own you. If one of you takes a hundred dollar bill from the cash register, you will go to jail. If we take billions out of the savings of ordinary people then crash the economy, costing thousands of jobs, not one of us will ever be prosecuted. Because the New Aristocracy is above such things. So we'll just keep on doing it. Enjoy the ride. Your local police belong to us now. We have militarized them into soldiers who treat you like terrorists. If you speak against us, we will ensure that you are tear gassed and beaten and handcuffed and caged into “free speech zones†designed to make you forget that the whole country was supposed to be a free speech zone. But now you have free speech only when and where we say you can have it. Meanwhile, we can say and do pretty much anything we want, to you or anyone else, and get away with it. If you happen to figure out our game and talk about it, we will accuse you of Class Warfare, in order to distract anyone from realizing that yes, there was a class war, that it was against you, that the war is over, and we won. Yes, you get a chance to vote for congresspeople and senators and presidents. But only after we've decided, long before the first ballot is ever cast, which candidate we will finance. Those we like, those who will give us what we want first and foremost, we will finance and you will get to vote on one of the two pre-screened candidates we have given you. If we don't like them, if we think they will challenge us, we will not finance them and you will never have the chance to vote on them. Because you don't get a real vote in the New Aristocracy. We own the White House. We own Congress. They pass the bills we write for them. They make the laws we want them to make, and make sure that they only limit you, never us. We own the courts. We own the lawyers. They are the club we use to beat you into submission. There are no Democratic or Republican Senators, or Congresspeople or Presidents. Those parties have not existed for decades. There is only the Party of the New Aristocracy. The rest is Kabuki theater. It is Mexican Wrestling. It is the illusion of choice, of difference, of democracy. This is not a democracy. It is a monarchy of money. In that monarchy, we are the Aristocracy, the royalty, and what we say, goes. If you dump trash illegally, you will be fined and potentially arrested. If we dump hundreds of tons of toxic waste into rivers and streams, none of us will ever be arrested and if we are fined, we will simply raise our prices so that you are the one to actually pay for what we did. We are the New Aristocracy, and we do not pay fines. We are the New Aristocracy, and we are immune from prosecution. We are the New Aristocracy, and we find your poverty and your powerlessness and your struggles disgusting. You are beneath us. Understand something: we don't want you to succeed. We don't want someone coming along to slice the pie into smaller pieces. We want to own all of it. If we really wanted more of you where we are, do you think we would have spent the last thirty years consolidating every major company into smaller and smaller groups owned by fewer and fewer people? We are the New Aristocracy because we were born into it. We got our money the old fashioned, Medieval way: our parents gave it to us. We were born into the wealth that we stole from you and your family over the last fifty years. You were not born into anything other than poverty and struggle. You will never be us. You will never have our advantages. And we like it that way. We like that you peer through the bars of your cage to all that we have. We like that you think you can have it yourself one day. Because that illusion keeps you on our side. But you will never have those things. We've made sure of that. Because what you're looking at is ours, and we do not share. The world we have carefully constructed for you is like one of those boardwalk games of chance where if you knock down the big pins with a baseball, you win a huge prize. But the pins are weighted and positioned so that you will never, ever knock them down. Yet you'll keep paying anyway, and keep throwing, until you exhaust yourself and your wallet. And we like it that way. We don't want you to have opportunities, we don't want you to have an education, we don't want you to have a voice in what happens to you, we don't want you healthy, we don't want you to do anything but be frightened, helpless, docile consumers who will eat and watch and buy what we tell you to eat and watch and buy while we keep all the good stuff to ourselves. Because you're not in our club. Because we are the New Aristocracy. And you are the New Peasants. And we very, very, very much like it that way.
oh, i wouldn't put it past the scumbag 'peace officers' to set up some borderline-retard (a la the feebs) to make some crappy 'iphone gun' and shoot somebody so they have their pretext... THAT is their modus operandi...
NOT that i don't agree with the aims, but the means are disturbing: OUT-BRIBE fat cats to restore 'our' (sic) system of governance ? ? ? out-bribe them to stop the bribery ? ? ? good luck with *that* fundraising: fatcats can buy kongresskritters 10 times over with their SOFA CHANGE... we 99% have to cut DEEP into our NECESSITIES to not even be able to out-bribe them... i just don't see it happening: power NEVER devolves voluntarily, and we are NOT going to out-bribe the puppetmasters...
if so, then we have confirmed what we've actually KNOWN down to our bones for quite some time: the 1% get their way, and the 99% get to pay... THAT is how The System is set up, and that IS how it works... to expect otherwise at this point is childish; what to do about it is the question...
their commercials are consistently funny without being forced... a bunch of them you have to be *something* of a sports fan to get the joke, but, heh, its ESPN, not the hallmark channel... if ALL commercials were along the lines of ESPN, i wouldn't have much of a problem with them... but when 99% of them are simply MADE TO BE ANNOYING (so their name 'sticks'), then all the mad men and wymen who make that crap can stuff it up their cloaca... besides, i am pissed that -apparently- MOST of my car insurance premium is spent on blanketing the total mediascape with obnoxious idiocy that they show a million times in a row... that's entertainment ! ! ! grrrr...
from the report i read somewhere - soylent news?- there are a couple details that make this more reasonable than might appear: 1. they basically 'promised' anyone who contributed a certain amount (9$ and over, i think), would get a deck of cards... 2. it was 2 years or more, and no cards... 3. NOT like -as posters there said- it was a NEW high tech thing that hadn't been developed and experienced unknown unknowns and unforeseeable delays: it was a GRAPHIC (already done) for a set of playing cards to be printed conventionally... (i seem to recall they specifically mentioned the 'bicycle' card company doing the printing...) 4. the founders did NOT respond to any inquiries by kickstartees, and have effectively disappeared with no updates, no 'hold on, we're almost there!', no nothing... THAT was one of the points people were making: IF the kickstarter keeps their kickstartees apprised of what is going on -EVEN IF LATE- they understand and are patient... all they've gotten is ...
if i had to 'guess' (which is ALL that is left to us, since REAL gummint oversight of OUR alphabet soup spook orgs is IMPOSSIBLE, and i'm CERTAIN there is no problem with that), i would say that there will be a certain percentage of 'twue bewievers' and boy scouts who actually DO believe that tripe, MOST of the real players know that your pollyanna version of contemporary politics is EXACTLY what they want sheeple to believe instead of the awful truth: they ARE corrupt, and the system IS to surveil us all, and all the rest is window-dressing and bullshit... but that's just a guess...
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Re: Repeat after me:
ha ha, a little gallows humor, right ?
but, these days ?
not so sure it is a joke anymore...
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got one of my sister when she was 1-2 and nekkid as a jay bird, it is a 'funny' picture of her wearing grandpa's boots and looking at his newspaper...
but i guess its kiddie pron...
got one of myself at a similar age, looking like a little fat, nekkid, baby buddah plopped down in a clothesbasket...
more kiddie pron...
dog damn i hate this world...
or, rather, i hate a LOT of the idiot nekkid apes on it...
and people wonder why i prefer dogs over nekkid apes...
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um, also...
i hear passenger pigeon is to die for...
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
...and so, IF taliban 'doctors' came into your neighborhood offering free medical services of some type, AND it subsequently turned out it was all a hoax to entrap someone you never dealt with, WHAT would be YOUR reaction THE NEXT TIME someone/anyone came into your village claiming to be doctors there to help ? ? ?
um, the smart and prudent thing to do, would be to kill them...
THAT is the evil the spooks have sown (and don't think for ONE SECOND they give a shit...)
On the post: Michael Hayden Gleefully Admits: We Kill People Based On Metadata
Re: Look at the good news!
don't disagree, but you're not paying attention:
much like how the NSA can't spy on Americans (stop laughing!), and get -say- germany to do it for us (and vice versa); NOW, instead of unka sam sending out OUR drones to meta-splat some wayward citizen, they simply get germany to send in THEIR drones and meta-splat us...
see, all perfectly legal and shit...
nothing to worry about, silly...
ALL PERFECTLY LEGAL...
just like hitler was...
On the post: As Government Officials Continue To Shed Trustworthiness, Journalists Continue Placing More Trust In Government Officials
Re: The media are whores
did anyone ever determine who was behind the 'mediawhores online' site ? ? ?
that was a good one, sad it went away...
On the post: Head-In-Sand Approach: White House Bans Current & Former Intelligence Staff From Discussing Any Media Leaks
Re: Wait, what?
didn't you see the EAGLES ? ? ?
'nuff said...
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allow me to fix that headline...
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Re:
it don't matter he eats babies for breakfast, he toes the line, he gets rewarded by Empire...
STOP thinking we live in some sort of meritocracy; STOP depending upon a corrupt (in)justice system as a last resort; STOP believing that 'our superiors' are weally, Weally, WEALLY working on behalf of us 99%, EVER; STOP hoping they will -*someday*- 'see the light' and stop fucking us over, that is childish thinking, STOP IT...
IT IS UP TO US TO TAKE OUR DEMOCRACY BACK, The They (tm) are NOT going to give it up voluntarily...
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Re: Re: This is really making Wheeler look like a tool of industry
in short: The They (tm) really don't give a shit, they're taking all our shit, and we aren't saying shit, are we ? ? ?
'cause we're all scared shitless...
On the post: The Bizarro, Fact-free World Of Copyright Policymaking
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
what i WANT, are contemporary laws which respond to contemporary mores and conditions, NOT favor extortionist gatekeepers to the exclusion of THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT VALUABLE...
i can not stress this enough, and it is a common enough theme here: OBSCURITY is the enemy of 'success', not pirating...
it is THE COLLECTIVE judgment of us all which makes a widget sell like hotcakes; it is OUR COLLECTIVE DECISIONS to watch a show, listen to a song, read a book, play a video game, etc, etc, etc, that make Big Media zillions...
WE make it popular, by the very definition: in fact, it is THE GATEKEEPERS who are stealing (and i DO mean STEALING) OUR CULTURE (such as it is), OUR popular means of expression, OUR art and music and words and EVERYTHING...
OURS...
give it back...
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Re: Hmm...
We do not.
On the post: US Patent Office Grants 'Photography Against A White Background' Patent To Amazon
Re: The dumb thing in the setup...
On the post: Freedom Online Coalition Basically Ignores Surveillance: Makes A Mockery Of Its Name
unfortunately, this is reality...
THE RULES OF THE NEW ARISTOCRACY
It doesn't matter how much food costs increase, doesn't matter if you can only afford fast food, we will always be able to buy steak. And we will invest heavily in fast food stocks to ensure we make money off this. Doesn't matter how much gas costs, we will always be able to afford it.
In addition to poor food choices and health coverage, your kids will grow up without proper nutrition which will cause them problems on every level, from physical to educational difficulties. Our kids will grow up straight and true and healthy.
It doesn't matter how much an education costs, doesn't matter if your kids can't afford to go to college or come out with massive debt, we will always be able to send our kids to university. And because a lot of our income is derived from tax incentives and taxpayer-financed bailouts your taxes are sending our kids to school. But you do not have the right to any of our money to send your kid to school.
If you or your kids want to start a business, you will find that because we've sucked all the money out of the economy, there is simply no available cash around to help you finance your startup. (Unless you want to go to your friends online at sites like Indiegogo, and isn't that just cute?) We just cut our kids a check and tell them to go have fun.
Your kids are born with a glass ceiling above which they will almost certainly never have the opportunity to rise. Our kids are born with a marble floor beneath which they will never be allowed to fall.
If you accidentally provide incorrect information on your tax return, you could lose your house, your possessions, and your livelihood. We lie all the time on our tax information and none of us ever have to deal with this. We squirrel away trillions of dollars in overseas accounts and do all we can to ensure that your money never leaves our control because we'll doubtless need to scoop out more of it soon.
You live in a Company Town; we pay you to work for us, while making sure that we own all the stores in town that sell our goods, the doctors offices where you go in town, the restaurants where you eat, and that we charge you just enough to make sure that at the end of the week you don't have any leftover money to squirrel away, so you can never leave the company town, can never get ahead, and can never risk criticizing the company town. You work for us. We own the town where you live. We own you.
If one of you takes a hundred dollar bill from the cash register, you will go to jail. If we take billions out of the savings of ordinary people then crash the economy, costing thousands of jobs, not one of us will ever be prosecuted. Because the New Aristocracy is above such things. So we'll just keep on doing it. Enjoy the ride.
Your local police belong to us now. We have militarized them into soldiers who treat you like terrorists. If you speak against us, we will ensure that you are tear gassed and beaten and handcuffed and caged into “free speech zones†designed to make you forget that the whole country was supposed to be a free speech zone. But now you have free speech only when and where we say you can have it. Meanwhile, we can say and do pretty much anything we want, to you or anyone else, and get away with it.
If you happen to figure out our game and talk about it, we will accuse you of Class Warfare, in order to distract anyone from realizing that yes, there was a class war, that it was against you, that the war is over, and we won.
Yes, you get a chance to vote for congresspeople and senators and presidents. But only after we've decided, long before the first ballot is ever cast, which candidate we will finance. Those we like, those who will give us what we want first and foremost, we will finance and you will get to vote on one of the two pre-screened candidates we have given you. If we don't like them, if we think they will challenge us, we will not finance them and you will never have the chance to vote on them. Because you don't get a real vote in the New Aristocracy.
We own the White House. We own Congress. They pass the bills we write for them. They make the laws we want them to make, and make sure that they only limit you, never us. We own the courts. We own the lawyers. They are the club we use to beat you into submission.
There are no Democratic or Republican Senators, or Congresspeople or Presidents. Those parties have not existed for decades. There is only the Party of the New Aristocracy. The rest is Kabuki theater. It is Mexican Wrestling. It is the illusion of choice, of difference, of democracy. This is not a democracy. It is a monarchy of money. In that monarchy, we are the Aristocracy, the royalty, and what we say, goes.
If you dump trash illegally, you will be fined and potentially arrested. If we dump hundreds of tons of toxic waste into rivers and streams, none of us will ever be arrested and if we are fined, we will simply raise our prices so that you are the one to actually pay for what we did.
We are the New Aristocracy, and we do not pay fines.
We are the New Aristocracy, and we are immune from prosecution.
We are the New Aristocracy, and we find your poverty and your powerlessness and your struggles disgusting. You are beneath us.
Understand something: we don't want you to succeed. We don't want someone coming along to slice the pie into smaller pieces. We want to own all of it. If we really wanted more of you where we are, do you think we would have spent the last thirty years consolidating every major company into smaller and smaller groups owned by fewer and fewer people?
We are the New Aristocracy because we were born into it. We got our money the old fashioned, Medieval way: our parents gave it to us. We were born into the wealth that we stole from you and your family over the last fifty years. You were not born into anything other than poverty and struggle. You will never be us. You will never have our advantages. And we like it that way.
We like that you peer through the bars of your cage to all that we have. We like that you think you can have it yourself one day. Because that illusion keeps you on our side. But you will never have those things. We've made sure of that. Because what you're looking at is ours, and we do not share.
The world we have carefully constructed for you is like one of those boardwalk games of chance where if you knock down the big pins with a baseball, you win a huge prize. But the pins are weighted and positioned so that you will never, ever knock them down. Yet you'll keep paying anyway, and keep throwing, until you exhaust yourself and your wallet. And we like it that way.
We don't want you to have opportunities, we don't want you to have an education, we don't want you to have a voice in what happens to you, we don't want you healthy, we don't want you to do anything but be frightened, helpless, docile consumers who will eat and watch and buy what we tell you to eat and watch and buy while we keep all the good stuff to ourselves.
Because you're not in our club.
Because we are the New Aristocracy.
And you are the New Peasants.
And we very, very, very much like it that way.
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Re: Fair enough...
THAT is their modus operandi...
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whatever, color me skeptical...
out-bribe them to stop the bribery ? ? ?
good luck with *that* fundraising: fatcats can buy kongresskritters 10 times over with their SOFA CHANGE...
we 99% have to cut DEEP into our NECESSITIES to not even be able to out-bribe them...
i just don't see it happening: power NEVER devolves voluntarily, and we are NOT going to out-bribe the puppetmasters...
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um, did you see the oligarchy article ? ? ?
THAT is how The System is set up, and that IS how it works...
to expect otherwise at this point is childish; what to do about it is the question...
(hint: power NEVER devolves voluntarily... NEVER)
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ESPN does it right...
if ALL commercials were along the lines of ESPN, i wouldn't have much of a problem with them... but when 99% of them are simply MADE TO BE ANNOYING (so their name 'sticks'), then all the mad men and wymen who make that crap can stuff it up their cloaca...
besides, i am pissed that -apparently- MOST of my car insurance premium is spent on blanketing the total mediascape with obnoxious idiocy that they show a million times in a row... that's entertainment ! ! !
grrrr...
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several factoids not in evidence...
1. they basically 'promised' anyone who contributed a certain amount (9$ and over, i think), would get a deck of cards...
2. it was 2 years or more, and no cards...
3. NOT like -as posters there said- it was a NEW high tech thing that hadn't been developed and experienced unknown unknowns and unforeseeable delays: it was a GRAPHIC (already done) for a set of playing cards to be printed conventionally... (i seem to recall they specifically mentioned the 'bicycle' card company doing the printing...)
4. the founders did NOT respond to any inquiries by kickstartees, and have effectively disappeared with no updates, no 'hold on, we're almost there!', no nothing...
THAT was one of the points people were making: IF the kickstarter keeps their kickstartees apprised of what is going on -EVEN IF LATE- they understand and are patient...
all they've gotten is ...
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Re: Re:
but that's just a guess...
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