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If you’re a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
— Mickey Spillane
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McSpiff Fri, Apr 29, 2011 10:07:39pm |
Open thread? That means I should already be asleep. Night all.
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Kragar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 11:22:27pm |
Been a while, but I got my first paid painting gig in a long time tonight. Guy at the store I play at liked my armies, tracked me down and made me an offer to paint his World Eaters for him.
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Kragar Fri, Apr 29, 2011 11:55:53pm |
re: #9 ralphieboy
KRAG EAT WORLD!!!
Even before their fall to Chaos the World Eaters were known as a bloodthirsty Legion, and becoming the chosen Legion of Khorne did little to change this. In battle they disregard mortal peril to sate their bloodlust in close combat, often displaying a berserker rage that makes them invulnerable to wounds that would kill even a Space Marine.
The preferred method of assault for the World Eaters is a Drop Pod assault, followed by a charge into enemy lines. They have also been known to drop right into enemy formations. Unlike other Space Marines who use tactical attacks with squads, the World Eaters tend to throw themselves as a whole force in the middle of battle.
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Gus Fri, Apr 29, 2011 11:57:28pm |
Laughing my head off here. The stalkers are so stupid it's almost fun to play with their tiny little brains.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Apr 30, 2011 3:25:25am |
It's a Habitat day, and we're wrapping up our second house of the year. So, hail and farewell for a few hours.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Apr 30, 2011 3:28:56am |
Playing for Change--Redemption Song
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:03:41am |
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laZardo Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:10:01am |
GOOD EVENING COMRADES
TOMORROW IS GLORIOUS DAY OF LABOR IN MY COUNTRY WHERE WE TALK IN ALL CAPS SLOGANS AND MARCH IN STREETS FOR PROLETARIAT.
HOW ARE THINGS IN BOURGEOIS LAND
/i'm pro-union and all but the local Marxists are more populist than anything.
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:16:18am |
re: #14 freetoken
[Video]
Listened to that twice.
Who is it? Which album?
The buildup to the orchestral sound is just sublime.
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:18:06am |
re: #19 laZardo
GOOD EVENING COMRADES
TOMORROW IS GLORIOUS DAY OF LABOR IN MY COUNTRY WHERE WE TALK IN ALL CAPS SLOGANS AND MARCH IN STREETS FOR PROLETARIAT.
HOW ARE THINGS IN BOURGEOIS LAND
/i'm pro-union and all but the local Marxists are more populist than anything.
I'm a happy member of the bourgeois class.
I can have hamburgers and pizza whenever I want to.
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theye1 Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:25:56am |
I feel that people are a little unfair to Al Jazeera Arabic, when covering America and Israel, they often get both sides of the issue. It's just that groups like MEMRI often don't feel the need to translate the opposition, giving the impression that the Arab Media is far more extreme then it is.
You want to learn what the Arab Media is like? Learn Arabic, and watch the shows yourselves.
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freetoken Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:29:20am |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:34:01am |
re: #22 theye1
MEMRI! lol MEMRI is about as trustworthy as Newsbusters
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:34:35am |
re: #19 laZardo
pro union but self-employed, I'm don't really count ^_^
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:35:35am |
re: #25 WindUpBird
MEMRI! lol MEMRI is about as trustworthy as Newsbusters
Why is MEMRI untrustworthy?
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theye1 Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:36:12am |
re: #25 WindUpBird
That is my point, the people who do translate the Arab Media, often have an agenda.
Imagine if the rest of the world only got Glen Beck as their only example of the American Media?
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:37:31am |
re: #22 theye1
I feel that people are a little unfair to Al Jazeera Arabic, when covering America and Israel, they often get both sides of the issue. It's just that groups like MEMRI often don't feel the need to translate the opposition, giving the impression that the Arab Media is far more extreme then it is.
You want to learn what the Arab Media is like? Learn Arabic, and watch the shows yourselves.
Yes, celebrating Samor Kuntar's birthday really highlights Al Jazeera's credibility.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:37:32am |
re: #19 laZardo
GOOD EVENING COMRADES
TOMORROW IS GLORIOUS DAY OF LABOR IN MY COUNTRY WHERE WE TALK IN ALL CAPS SLOGANS AND MARCH IN STREETS FOR PROLETARIAT.
HOW ARE THINGS IN BOURGEOIS LAND
/i'm pro-union and all but the local Marxists are more populist than anything.
In my country, streets march on you!!!
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:39:46am |
re: #28 theye1
That is my point, the people who do translate the Arab Media, often have an agenda.
Imagine if the rest of the world only got Glen Beck as their only example of the American Media?
MEMRI translates thousands upon thousands of videos, audio and printed materials.
While it is inevitable mistakes will occur, the vast majority of their work is highly accurate.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:43:46am |
re: #28 theye1
Imagine if the rest of the world only got Glen Beck as their only example of the American Media?
There are enough Americans already for whom that is the case...
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:54:35am |
Capitalism is also about recciprocity
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theye1 Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:03:33am |
re: #29 researchok
The head of Lebanese News Bureau was punished for it, and Al Jazeera director offered an apology. The whole thing related more to the Regional politics of Lebanon, then an actual policy for Al Jazeera.
re: #31 researchok
MEMRI translates thousands upon thousands of videos, audio and printed materials.
While it is inevitable mistakes will occur, the vast majority of their work is highly accurate.
I've seen translations by MEMRI of news programs where extremist rhetoric was presented, but the criticism of the rhetoric by other people was not presented at all.
I also disagree with the statement about the accuracy, they tend translate to make people more extremist then they are.
re: #32 ralphieboy
I wouldn't know, I am not American. But America also has the NYT and CNN, good examples of journalism, and people know that.
I'm just asking for the same deal with the Arab Media, instead of trolling for the most extreme things you can find. How about you portray the Arab Media accurately and in context?
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:08:18am |
re: #32 ralphieboy
I wouldn't know, I am not American. But America also has the NYT and CNN, good examples of journalism, and people know that.
I'm just asking for the same deal with the Arab Media, instead of trolling for the most extreme things you can find. How about you portray the Arab Media accurately and in context?
Because Good Americans (TM) know that therea re no moderate Muslims.
/
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:10:02am |
re: #35 theye1
The head of Lebanese News Bureau was punished for it, and Al Jazeera director offered an apology. The whole thing related more to the Regional politics of Lebanon, then an actual policy for Al Jazeera.
re: #31 researchok
I've seen translations by MEMRI of news programs where extremist rhetoric was presented, but the criticism of the rhetoric by other people was not presented at all.
I also disagree with the statement about the accuracy, they tend translate to make people more extremist then they are.
re: #32 ralphieboy
I wouldn't know, I am not American. But America also has the NYT and CNN, good examples of journalism, and people know that.
I'm just asking for the same deal with the Arab Media, instead of trolling for the most extreme things you can find. How about you portray the Arab Media accurately and in context?
What you have seen is irrelevant.
Can you show me a documented pattern of substantive deliberate mistranslation by a credible source?
Arab media has a long and documented history of racism, bigotry and hate, documented by many sources other than MEMRI.
Unlike media in free western socities, the vast majority of major media in the region is state controlled and sponsored.
The sane is true of educational curriculum and sadly, much religious instruction.
Arab media and so on are ion no way equivalent to western media.
Of course if you want to believe what state sponsored Libyan, Yemeni and Syrian media among others are saying, that is your business of course.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:15:06am |
re: #37 researchok
Unlike media in free western socities, the vast majority of major media in the region is state controlled and sponsored.
Arab media and so on are ion no way equivalent to western media..
This was part of the controversy beehind the Danish Muhammad caricatures. It was assumed by much of the Arab world that the government had to approve and sanction such a thing in order for it to appear in a newspaper.
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jamesfirecat Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:18:53am |
I'm not normally one to bring things down but about the page quote...
If only that were true all of the time....
But it isn't...
Sometimes writers loose the thing that is most important to them also....
(I'd like everyone to join me in metaphorically lighting a candle or doing whatever else feels right out of respect for Terry Pratchett, one of the most Prolifiic and most skilled writers out there, and sufferer of early onset Alzheimer's... (who also for the moment despite grappling with the disease still manages to have three books on the way.)
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:20:26am |
I know lots of whiters who have managed to lose all sense of shame, propriety and proportion...
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RogueOne Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:24:48am |
re: #37 researchok
What you have seen is irrelevant.
Can you show me a documented pattern of substantive deliberate mistranslation by a credible source?
Arab media has a long and documented history of racism, bigotry and hate, documented by many sources other than MEMRI.
Unlike media in free western socities, the vast majority of major media in the region is state controlled and sponsored.
The sane is true of educational curriculum and sadly, much religious instruction.
Arab media and so on are ion no way equivalent to western media.
Of course if you want to believe what state sponsored Libyan, Yemeni and Syrian media among others are saying, that is your business of course.
Very true and it's worse than that. The state controls all media. Back in the old days when people read magazines (the 90's/) my sister would get her monthly subscriptions and the state would go through the magazines cutting out articles and pictures they deemed offensive before they would be delivered.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:36:26am |
re: #41 RogueOne
Very true and it's worse than that. The state controls all media. Back in the old days when people read magazines (the 90's/) my sister would get her monthly subscriptions and the state would go through the magazines cutting out articles and pictures they deemed offensive before they would be delivered.
Where was she living?
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:43:05am |
Man, I finally got around to reading The Smartest Guys in the Room.
So bizarre that people still think that corporations can be trusted to behave at all responsibly with anything connected to the public interest.
[Link: www.amazon.com...]
Deregulation of energy. What a craptastic idea.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:44:44am |
re: #43 Obdicut
I saw the documentary. Blew me away.
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RogueOne Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:45:33am |
re: #42 iceweasel
Where was she living?
Jeddah. She married a saud while she was in college 25 years ago. She moved back to Cincy full-time to finish her masters in 2009. You didn't know my Brot-in-law was a saudi pilot? The original deal was they would live in Jeddah/Riyad for 10 years and come back to the states but the move back date was pushed back 15 years. On the plus side, free flights!
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:46:24am |
re: #45 RogueOne
Jeddah. She married a saud while she was in college 25 years ago. She moved back to Cincy full-time to finish her masters in 2009. You didn't know my Brot-in-law was a saudi pilot? The original deal was they would live in Jeddah/Riyad for 10 years and come back to the states but the move back date was pushed back 15 years. On the plus side, free flights!
I had no idea about any of this. Once again, you have the best stories. :)
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:47:21am |
re: #44 iceweasel
The things said by the traders are just insane. How on earth do you get a corporate culture where the response to wildfires destroying property and killing people is "Burn, baby, burn!" and laughter?
Pathological.
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RogueOne Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:48:49am |
re: #46 iceweasel
Her story is a rough one. One of the original deals was that he would have only one wife too, that one she's still pretty pissed over. That's the reason I was curious about the presidents father and his immigration paperwork the other day.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:50:05am |
re: #48 Obdicut
The things said by the traders are just insane. How on earth do you get a corporate culture where the response to wildfires destroying property and killing people is "Burn, baby, burn!" and laughter?
Pathological.
The Corporation.
The documentary shows the development of the contemporary business corporation, from a legal entity that originated as a government-chartered institution meant to effect specific public functions, to the rise of the modern commercial institution entitled to most of the legal rights of a person. One theme is its assessment as a "personality", as a result of an 1886 case in the United States Supreme Court in which a statement by Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite[nb 1] led to corporations as "persons" having the same rights as human beings, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The film's assessment is effected via the diagnostic criteria in the DSM-IV; Robert Hare, a University of British Columbia psychology professor and a consultant to the FBI, compares the profile of the contemporary profitable business corporation to that of a clinically-diagnosed psychopath. The documentary concentrates mostly upon North American corporations, especially those of the United States.
The film is in vignettes examining and criticizing corporate business practices. It establishes parallels between the way corporations are systematically compelled to behave and the DSM-IV's symptoms of psychopathy, i.e. callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the incapacity to maintain human relationships, reckless disregard for the safety of others, deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to conform to social norms and respect for the law.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:51:20am |
re: #49 RogueOne
Her story is a rough one. One of the original deals was that he would have only one wife too, that one she's still pretty pissed over.
I'd be pretty pissed over that too.
Ok, need coffee. Back soon.
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 5:54:21am |
re: #50 iceweasel
One of the stupidest and baffling decisions of all time. Corporations are so obviously different from individuals in so many ways, that basing the rights of them on the rights of individuals is almost capriciously idiotic. Corporations can be immortal, or they can 'die' to their own benefit. Corporations can 'live' somewhere they don't actually have to spend any time. There's any number of ways corporations are different from individuals; there are almost no ways they are similar.
Basing their rights on those of the individual is the largest slap in the face to individual rights that I can think of. And yet so many glibertarians find nothing wrong with it, see nothing wrong with these groups having power and rights and privileges that exceed those of the individual.
I blame Rand, but not nearly as much as I blame fuckers like Ryan who actually think she made sense.
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RogueOne Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:02:28am |
re: #52 Obdicut
One of the stupidest and baffling decisions of all time. Corporations are so obviously different from individuals in so many ways, that basing the rights of them on the rights of individuals is almost capriciously idiotic. Corporations can be immortal, or they can 'die' to their own benefit. Corporations can 'live' somewhere they don't actually have to spend any time. There's any number of ways corporations are different from individuals; there are almost no ways they are similar.
Basing their rights on those of the individual is the largest slap in the face to individual rights that I can think of. And yet so many glibertarians find nothing wrong with it, see nothing wrong with these groups having power and rights and privileges that exceed those of the individual.
I blame Rand, but not nearly as much as I blame fuckers like Ryan who actually think she made sense.
I didn't realize the USSC was "glibterian". I know you don't like them having 1st amendment rights (we've had that argument) but are there other constitutional protections you don't believe they are qualified to hold?
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:04:20am |
re: #53 RogueOne
I didn't realize the USSC was "glibterian". I know you don't like them having 1st amendment rights (we've had that argument) but are there other constitutional protections you don't believe they are qualified to hold?
Could you at least try to engage with what I said in my post, please?
Can you explain why it makes any sense to base the rights of corporations, which bear no resemblance to individuals, on the rights of individuals? Why does that make sense in the least?
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RogueOne Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:04:42am |
re: #52 Obdicut
..and to refresh my memory, I believe you hold the same view on corporate speech rights as you do with Unions. Is that right?
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RogueOne Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:05:30am |
re: #54 Obdicut
Could you at least try to engage with what I said in my post, please?
Can you explain why it makes any sense to base the rights of corporations, which bear no resemblance to individuals, on the rights of individuals? Why does that make sense in the least?
A corporation is a collection of individuals, like a union, they don't lose their rights just because they belong to an organization.
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:07:11am |
re: #56 RogueOne
A corporation is a collection of individuals, like a union, they don't lose their rights just because they belong to an organization.
That is not an answer.
The individuals in a corporation don't lose any rights if you curtail the rights of the corporation. The individuals still retain all the rights they have, in every way. I'm an individual. I own a corporation. If you restrict the rights of that corporation, I, the individual, do not lose a single one of my rights.
Please try to actually answer the question:
Can you explain why it makes any sense to base the rights of corporations, which bear no resemblance to individuals, on the rights of individuals? Why does that make sense in the least?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:10:45am |
re: #43 Obdicut
Man, I finally got around to reading The Smartest Guys in the Room.
So bizarre that people still think that corporations can be trusted to behave at all responsibly with anything connected to the public interest.
[Link: www.amazon.com...]
Deregulation of energy. What a craptastic idea.
oh my god yes
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:11:52am |
re: #56 RogueOne
A corporation is a collection of individuals, like a union, they don't lose their rights just because they belong to an organization.
we wouldn't need unions if corporations weren't evil
a collection of individuals in power, in a corporation, with no morals? is one of the most dangerous things besides, oh, I don't know, a tornado
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:12:02am |
re: #55 RogueOne
..and to refresh my memory, I believe you hold the same view on corporate speech rights as you do with Unions. Is that right?
I think of all organizations in the same way. There is no reason to treat any group entity as though it were an individual. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be strong rights for those groups; it means that basing them off of the individual is fucking stupid.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:12:46am |
re: #60 Obdicut
I think of all organizations in the same way. There is no reason to treat any group entity as though it were an individual. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be strong rights for those groups; it means that basing them off of the individual is fucking stupid.
this
corporate speech having the power of the individual is honestly psycho to me
Standard oil is not a guy, it can't father a baby
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RogueOne Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:13:33am |
re: #57 Obdicut
That is not an answer.
The individuals in a corporation don't lose any rights if you curtail the rights of the corporation. The individuals still retain all the rights they have, in every way. I'm an individual. I own a corporation. If you restrict the rights of that corporation, I, the individual, do not lose a single one of my rights.
Please try to actually answer the question:
We've had this argument more than once, we're not going to change each others minds. I don't find the argument that individuals aren't entitled to collective rights compelling. I only jumped in because I found your blaming of Rand and "glibterians" way off base, there has never been a libertarian on the bench and no justice that I can think of has ever quoted Rand as a factor in their decision making. Corporations/unions/collectivists had speech rights long before Rand was publishing books.
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laZardo Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:13:47am |
re: #58 WindUpBird
oh my god yes
Any "industry" dealing in a basic human right should be left to the state.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:13:58am |
Find me the guy named Mister Apple Computer, and I'd like to know his sperm count, and also when his first kiss was
(speaking of evil corporations, haha talk to an iphone dev in the bay if you want to hear an earful about Apple, WOW the things I hear)
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:14:06am |
re: #59 WindUpBird
Unrelated: I totally saw a juggalo in Manhattan. Live as life, face-paint and all, and being a complete asshole, screaming about clown life on the street.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:14:27am |
re: #63 laZardo
Any "industry" dealing in a basic human right should be left to the state.
I agree
but that ain't America
America will collapse before that changes
(psst: maybe it'll collapse BECAUSe it won't change)
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RogueOne Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:16:39am |
re: #63 laZardo
Any "industry" dealing in a basic human right should be left to the state.
Who gets to determine what constitutes a "basic human right"?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:16:45am |
re: #65 Obdicut
Unrelated: I totally saw a juggalo in Manhattan. Live as life, face-paint and all, and being a complete asshole, screaming about clown life on the street.
I have seen many many Juggalos in Portland, in SE, standing outside venues for Mushroomhead (a band I quite like sometimes) they're not unusual here, they're actually quite well behaved from what i've seen, they're like goths, but more nerdy and younger. they hang out at the mall, they wear the ICP merch, they have face paint (usually not full facepaint, usually just enough to mark them as a juggalo) I usually see them in the game store or the food court
manhattan though!
I dunno, I bet portland jaggalos and manhattan juggalos ar eprobably going to be very different just because of location
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:16:55am |
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:17:02am |
re: #62 RogueOne
We've had this argument more than once, we're not going to change each others minds
No, we've never actually had this argument, since you either don't understand what I'm saying or ignore it.
. I don't find the argument that individuals aren't entitled to collective rights compelling.
I have never made the argument that individuals aren't entitled to collective rights. I've asked, and you have never, ever answered, why the rights of a group, which bears no resemblance to an individual, should be based on the rights of the individuals.
I think groups should have rights, and strong ones. I am saying it is moronic to base them off of the individual.
Corporations/unions/collectivists had speech rights long before Rand was publishing books.
Oh, you misunderstand me. I'm not blaming the Supreme Court decision on Rand. I'm blaming the devotion of glibertarians to granting the rights of an individual to groups-- which is basically the exact opposite of libertarianism-- on Rand, and her devotees like jackass Ryan.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:17:57am |
re: #67 RogueOne
Helath care IMHo is a basic human right
but we'll never agree
I changed adult diapers for nearly 15 years, advocated for the disabled, and got almost ten people fired from my job for abuse, a couple were investigated by the county.
so i think I have a bit of authority to speak on kindness in health care and its role in society as a basic human rights
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:18:33am |
tired and on benadryl, so I'm waiting to get sleepy, forgive me if the typos come fast n furious
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Flounder Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:18:56am |
re: #65 Obdicut
Oops,my bad I thought you misspelled gigolo, now I have some research to do...
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laZardo Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:18:57am |
re: #67 RogueOne
Who gets to determine what constitutes a "basic human right"?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:20:28am |
basically, i've seen what happen in America BECAUSE we don't fund health care, because our country is disgusting, because our country loves death and war and fetishizes guns and the military, and devalues life and quality of life
inhuman shit happens in what passes for health care in this coutry because of what we are as Americans, and that's about all I'll say without bringing the room down
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:20:48am |
saying it again
My country disgusts me
It has pretty much since I began in health care
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:21:38am |
re: #77 Shropshire_Slasher
hahaha come on, you gotta know some actual ICP :D
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RogueOne Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:22:07am |
re: #70 Obdicut
We've had this argument multiple times in relation to the Citizens United ruling. Your short-term memory is worse than mine./
I have never made the argument that individuals aren't entitled to collective rights. I've asked, and you have never, ever answered, why the rights of a group, which bears no resemblance to an individual, should be based on the rights of the individuals.
When individuals group together to form a corporation that doesn't exclude their business practices from being regulated. If I'm missing something what individual right, other than free speech, are you talking about?
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Flounder Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:22:54am |
re: #78 WindUpBird
Ive been unsuccessfully coping with the natural beauty in infidelity for a long time.
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laZardo Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:24:59am |
There was once a web page that said all that needed to be said about the Juggalo culture.
Unfortunately, ED shut down. >:C
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sattv4u2 Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:25:06am |
re: #72 WindUpBird
tired and on benadryl, so I'm waiting to get sleepy, forgive me if the typos come fast n furious
wut tipoes?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:25:22am |
re: #81 laZardo
There was once a web page that said all that needed to be said about the Juggalo culture.
Unfortunately, ED shut down. >:C
ED shut down?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:25:46am |
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:25:57am |
re: #79 RogueOne
We've had this argument multiple times in relation to the Citizens United ruling. Your short-term memory is worse than mine./
No. We've never actually had an argument about it, because you just ignore what I'm saying, or you don't understand it.
Like right now.
When individuals group together to form a corporation that doesn't exclude their business practices from being regulated. If I'm missing something what individual right, other than free speech, are you talking about?
Seriously? The ruling that the 14th amendment applied to corporate 'people' grants every right that can be possibly construed as applying to a corporation. So, in other words, all of the rights in the bill of rights.
Do you actually not know that?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:26:03am |
I literally have cheesecake, it's nice *_*
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:27:22am |
re: #85 Obdicut
We're getting our Gibson-esque dark future
pretty soon America will be a memory, hail weyland-yutani
maybe we'll have a couple bejeweled A.I.s for our troubles
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:29:17am |
re: #87 WindUpBird
AI could be a solution; a lot of the problems inherent in human decision-making-- like personal interest-- could be solved with trusted AI.
We are so goddamn far from AI, though. We don't even have an agreed-upon theoretical path. It's all still phenomenology.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:31:44am |
re: #83 WindUpBird
ED shut down?
Getting kinda personal, no?
What do you care if I have erectile dysfunction!?!?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:31:59am |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:32:10am |
re: #91 sattv4u2
Getting kinda personal, no?
What do you care if I have erectile dysfunction!?!?
hahahahahahaha
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RogueOne Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:32:27am |
re: #85 Obdicut
No. We've never actually had an argument about it, because you just ignore what I'm saying, or you don't understand it.
Like right now.
Seriously? The ruling that the 14th amendment applied to corporate 'people' grants every right that can be possibly construed as applying to a corporation. So, in other words, all of the rights in the bill of rights.
Do you actually not know that?
So you don't think corporations have a right to speech or to protect themselves criminally? Do you also believe corporations should have to house soldiers, keep guns off their properties, or the government should be allowed to search & seize at will? I keep asking you for a specific problem you have and the only answer I've ever received is speech rights. Corporations have always had these rights, this is nothing new.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:32:46am |
re: #91 sattv4u2
Ted Stryker: No one has to know about your problem! No one has to know you're impotent!
Sonny Bono: DON'T SAY THAT WORD!!!!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:33:26am |
re: #94 RogueOne
corporations have ad budgets, that's different from corporate personhood
speech is here
personhood is here, they're very different
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RogueOne Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:33:30am |
Kids are waking up, we stayed up till 3 playing a Mortal Kombat marathon. Time to run and get donuts but I'll BBL.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:34:02am |
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RogueOne Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:34:18am |
re: #96 WindUpBird
corporations have ad budgets, that's different from corporate personhood
speech is here
personhood is here, they're very different
product ads are regulated, political speech rights are universal.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:34:26am |
re: #97 RogueOne
also lol johnny cage trophy fatality
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:35:03am |
re: #99 RogueOne
product ads are regulated, political speech rights are universal.
corpo personhood has a billion arguments against it, I'm too tired to repeat em
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:35:25am |
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laZardo Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:37:01am |
re: #103 WindUpBird
yeah well
they eat their own :P
More like a few take being Anon too seriously. q; Even "oldfags" would probably know that Anonymous isn't some (serious) GRAND INTERNET ARMAY.
Though the Habbo raids were funny as fuck though.
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:38:34am |
re: #94 RogueOne
So you don't think corporations have a right to speech or to protect themselves criminally? D.
This is exactly what I mean. You're just ignoring what I write. Why?
To remind you:
I think groups should have rights, and strong ones. I am saying it is moronic to base them off of the individual.
Now can you please actually address what I'm saying and not your fatuous strawmen? Is it really that hard for you?
Again, here is the question:
Can you explain why it makes any sense to base the rights of corporations, which bear no resemblance to individuals, on the rights of individuals? Why does that make sense in the least?
If you can answer that, then we could actually have a discussion about what rights corporations and other groups actually should have. But I don't think you are ever going to produce even a semblance of a reasonable answer to that question.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:38:48am |
re: #104 laZardo
yeah Anon is sorta heady with their press, ah well
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darthstar Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:48:22am |
re: #106 WindUpBird
yeah Anon is sorta heady with their press, ah well
There's a diary on dKos right now about Anon going after the Chamber of Commerce...the password to their document dump is "Barrett Brown"...That guy gets around, doesn't he?
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darthstar Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:51:42am |
Heh...Jerome Corsi's 2009 WND post about what a long-form birth certificate is supposed to look like is coming back to bite him and his birther gang on the ass...it looks just like the long form one Obama released.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:52:43am |
re: #106 WindUpBird
Yo. I just sanitized my Tweets from last night. No more mention of the morons. Was just having a little fun there. They're actually polluting Twitter with their brain juice as we type.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:57:56am |
Mitt Romney thinks we're in peacetime!
Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history. With its failed stimulus package, its grandiose new social programs, its fervor for more taxes and government regulations, and its hostility toward business, the administration has made the debt problem worse, hindered economic recovery and needlessly cost American workers countless jobs.
that is some great Romney right there
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:59:01am |
re: #109 Gus 802
Yo. I just sanitized my Tweets from last night. No more mention of the morons. Was just having a little fun there. They're actually polluting Twitter with their brain juice as we type.
I enjoy it, but then again, i already have a bit of a public profile because of my work
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Achilles Tang Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:59:04am |
If a corporation is wholly owned by a group of individuals and those individuals unanimously agree to vote as a block, then the corporation is synonymous with the individuals' rights.
If the agreement is not unanimous then the corporation is no longer acting for all individuals and some individuals may claim that their individual rights are violated.
They may lose that claim based on the principles of majority rule, but the reverse is not true. Namely, a "corporation" cannot claim that its rights have been violated by a majority vote of its members.
Therefore, a corporation's rights are not synonymous with individual rights.
Needless to say, most corporate decisions regarding political activity are not taken as a result of voting.
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:59:07am |
re: #100 WindUpBird
also lol johnny cage trophy fatality
I hate Johnny Cage.
Ever since the very first MK.
Lol.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:59:43am |
re: #107 darthstar
There's a diary on dKos right now about Anon going after the Chamber of Commerce...the password to their document dump is "Barrett Brown"...That guy gets around, doesn't he?
he's very anon! he's probably their most public supporter
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:01:13am |
re: #113 Varek Raith
I hate Johnny Cage.
Ever since the very first MK.
Lol.
He's SO FUNNY in the new one
I like Sheeva. For arms, horns, a mohawk, great fatalities, and she became QUEEN OF AUSTRALIA int he story mode to rib the aussies, they banned the game, and possession carries the sort of fine that narcotics possession does
can't gbuy pres slike that!
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:01:58am |
BP is a corporation.
A corporation now has rights based on an individual.
BP should therefore be charged with 11 counts of murder because of their negligence in the Gulf.
Two edged sword and all that.
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:02:18am |
re: #115 WindUpBird
He's SO FUNNY in the new one
I like Sheeva. For arms, horns, a mohawk, great fatalities, and she became QUEEN OF AUSTRALIA int he story mode to rib the aussies, they banned the game, and possession carries the sort of fine that narcotics possession does
can't gbuy pres slike that!
Lol.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:12:25am |
Mmmm. 45 more minutes and I can get a fresh pack of cigs. Must. Wait.
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:17:32am |
re: #118 Gus 802
I feel for you, man. I'm so glad that I quit just for not having that sinking feeling of 'Crap, am I out? Is the store closed? Crap crap crap!'.
That's a sucky monkey.
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Romantic Heretic Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:20:38am |
re: #16 Decatur Deb
Playing for Change--Redemption Song
[Video]
I may be an agnostic, but music comes from God.
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:28:07am |
re: #120 Walter L. Newton
The only way to stop is cold turkey.
Nope. I actually stopped first with a slight draw down, just so that it wasn't quite as frenzied a withdrawal. Then I used Welbutrin to cap off the cravings. Obviously relying on a social support network helps a lot, too.
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:29:33am |
re: #124 Obdicut
Nope. I actually stopped first with a slight draw down, just so that it wasn't quite as frenzied a withdrawal. Then I used Welbutrin to cap off the cravings. Obviously relying on a social support network helps a lot, too.
Commie.
/
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:30:25am |
re: #124 Obdicut
Nope. I actually stopped first with a slight draw down, just so that it wasn't quite as frenzied a withdrawal. Then I used Welbutrin to cap off the cravings. Obviously relying on a social support network helps a lot, too.
I should have been more specific... the only way for me to stop any compulsive and addictive habit like smoking is to stop cold turkey.
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Romantic Heretic Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:31:07am |
re: #89 Obdicut
AI could be a solution; a lot of the problems inherent in human decision-making-- like personal interest-- could be solved with trusted AI.
We are so goddamn far from AI, though. We don't even have an agreed-upon theoretical path. It's all still phenomenology.
When I was a programmer I used to piss off the AI freaks among my colleagues because I'd say, "How can we fake something when we don't know what it is?" *grin*
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:32:18am |
re: #126 Walter L. Newton
I should have been more specific... the only way for me to stop any compulsive and addictive habit like smoking is to stop cold turkey.
Yes. You should have said something correct, instead of something false.
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:32:43am |
re: #127 Romantic Heretic
When I was a programmer I used to piss off the AI freaks among my colleagues because I'd say, "How can we fake something when we don't know what it is?" *grin*
Heh. In The Diamond Age, the society refers to it as "PI", "Pseudointelligence", because "AI" was 'too cheeky'.
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Romantic Heretic Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:35:31am |
re: #105 Obdicut
This is exactly what I mean. You're just ignoring what I write. Why?
To remind you:
I think groups should have rights, and strong ones. I am saying it is moronic to base them off of the individual.
Now can you please actually address what I'm saying and not your fatuous strawmen? Is it really that hard for you?
Again, here is the question:
If you can answer that, then we could actually have a discussion about what rights corporations and other groups actually should have. But I don't think you are ever going to produce even a semblance of a reasonable answer to that question.
I've no quarrel with corporations having rights. I just wish the concept of responsibility to nation, society and the world was included.
But it's not. And corporations and the individuals in them have trouble with the idea of responsibility is foreign and often anathema to them.
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Romantic Heretic Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:36:02am |
re: #129 Obdicut
Heh. In The Diamond Age, the society refers to it as "PI", "Pseudointelligence", because "AI" was 'too cheeky'.
I remember that. Wonderful book.
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Romantic Heretic Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:38:00am |
re: #110 WindUpBird
Mitt Romney thinks we're in peacetime!
that is some great Romney right there
War is Peace. /
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:38:50am |
re: #133 Romantic Heretic
His excuse was stupid as shit, too.
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justaminute Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:40:47am |
I was just reading at various sites. People are buzzing at several sites about a big download by "Anonymous ." I guess they hit the Chamber of Commerce. This was evidently in the past couple of hours and the files are encrypted.
The password to unlock the files is "Barrett Brown". When I am busy at work I sometimes don't read our posts here thoroughly. I thought I read that name here. Am I wrong? Who is he?
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:46:08am |
re: #136 justaminute
I was just reading at various sites. People are buzzing at several sites about a big download by "Anonymous ." I guess they hit the Chamber of Commerce. This was evidently in the past couple of hours and the files are encrypted.
The password to unlock the files is "Barrett Brown". When I am busy at work I sometimes don't read our posts here thoroughly. I thought I read that name here. Am I wrong? Who is he?
He's the official spokesman for Anon. He posted here for a while but he clashed with some of us over issues like Bradley Manning, Assange, Israel, etc. He also had some general issues with honesty so he didn't fit in very well. He posts on the LGF stalker blogs now.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:46:33am |
re: #136 justaminute
I was just reading at various sites. People are buzzing at several sites about a big download by "Anonymous ." I guess they hit the Chamber of Commerce. This was evidently in the past couple of hours and the files are encrypted.
The password to unlock the files is "Barrett Brown". When I am busy at work I sometimes don't read our posts here thoroughly. I thought I read that name here. Am I wrong? Who is he?
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:48:00am |
Ode to the Brain
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Lidane Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:50:52am |
*sigh*
Sometimes I wonder what the hell people are thinking:
Ron Paul: More Progressive Than Obama?
Really? LOL forever.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:56:17am |
re: #140 justaminute
Thanks. Just curious.
Here's Barrett's opinion on how HE and the Anon group break laws:
“When we break laws, we do it in the service of civil disobedience. We do so ethically. We do it against targets that have asked for it.”
They do it ethically, you see, against targets that have asked for it. As he and Anon define it all of it. A law unto themselves, they seem to be.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:56:33am |
re: #65 Obdicut
Unrelated: I totally saw a juggalo in Manhattan. Live as life, face-paint and all, and being a complete asshole, screaming about clown life on the street.
Ah new york. How I miss it. (and also, not)
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PhillyPretzel Sat, Apr 30, 2011 7:59:08am |
re: #143 iceweasel
Hi there Ice. How did the cinnamon buns turn out?
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:02:00am |
re: #142 reine.de.tout
Here's Barrett's opinion on how HE and the Anon group break laws:
They do it ethically, you see, against targets that have asked for it. As he and Anon define it all of it. A law unto themselves, they seem to be.
I'm off to rob a BoA bank.
They deserve it.
///
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:02:37am |
re: #144 PhillyPretzel
Hi there Ice. How did the cinnamon buns turn out?
Hey Philly! Saved your recipe but haven't made them yet. I locked myself out of the house for a couple of hours today and had to wait for a locksmith to let me back in. That was fun./ Jimmah's at work. Best I can do is make him some brownies later.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:04:26am |
re: #142 reine.de.tout
The Koskidz are really excited about the stolen Chamber of Commerce documents this morning. I seriously doubt they'll find anything interesting.
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PhillyPretzel Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:04:43am |
re: #146 iceweasel
Okay. I too am apprehensive about trying new recipes.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:06:47am |
re: #148 PhillyPretzel
Okay. I too am apprehensive about trying new recipes.
While I waited a couple of friendly men offered to bust in my door for me if I desired. They were carrying a lot of beer and could probably do it with a headbutt. Culture shock continues.
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:08:06am |
re: #146 iceweasel
Hey Philly! Saved your recipe but haven't made them yet. I locked myself out of the house for a couple of hours today and had to wait for a locksmith to let me back in. That was fun./ Jimmah's at work. Best I can do is make him some brownies later.
C4 + Door = Open.
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:11:14am |
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:13:10am |
re: #151 Varek Raith
When push comes to shove, Daniels sides with the culture war.
Chickenshit.
Per this article... it had bipartisan support...
The principle involved commands the support of an overwhelming majority of Hoosiers, as reflected in greater than 2:1 bipartisan votes in both legislative chambers.
Hmmmm...
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justaminute Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:14:56am |
re: #147 Killgore Trout
The Koskidz are really excited about the stolen Chamber of Commerce documents this morning. I seriously doubt they'll find anything interesting.
They really hate the Chamber. We are a local member of our cities Chamber. They don't really do anything but collect funds. A friend of my husbands is a home builder and he sponsors one of their meeting rooms. It just gets his name out there.
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:19:15am |
re: #152 Walter L. Newton
Per this article... it had bipartisan support...
Hmmm...
Well, I hope they're prepared to lose Federal Medicare funds, because this law is in violation of the rule governing the distribution of funds.
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kirkspencer Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:19:26am |
re: #153 justaminute
They really hate the Chamber. We are a local member of our cities Chamber. They don't really do anything but collect funds. A friend of my husbands is a home builder and he sponsors one of their meeting rooms. It just gets his name out there.
I will point out that the US Chamber of Commerce is not connected to any local chambers of commerce.
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:21:25am |
re: #152 Walter L. Newton
Yep. There's quite a few anti-abortion Democrats, as well. That's a large component of the Blue Dogs.
Still, even some of the Democrats supporting the bill attempted to moderate it, but their amendments were voted down.
[Link: www.indystar.com...]
In the end, two Democratic Senators wound up supporting it. Just two.
Obviously, though, we ought to focus on the 'bipartisan' nature of it.
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:22:45am |
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:23:22am |
re: #151 Varek Raith
When push comes to shove, Daniels sides with the culture war.
Chickenshit.
What's a douche. Might as well cross out his name.
There's a serious lack of diversity within the Republican pa...
Urm, nevermind.
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:24:35am |
re: #159 Gus 802
What's a douche. Might as well cross out his name.
There's a serious lack of diversity within the Republican pa...
Urm, nevermind.
Here, have an awesome hat.
Image: beatrice-and-eugine.jpg
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:25:28am |
re: #149 iceweasel
While I waited a couple of friendly men offered to bust in my door for me if I desired. They were carrying a lot of beer and could probably do it with a headbutt. Culture shock continues.
Headbutt lock smiths.
If it's not Scottish. It's cyrrrrrap.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:26:23am |
re: #160 Varek Raith
Here, have an awesome hat.
Image: beatrice-and-eugine.jpg
What are they? Sister? Friends? Cousins? Mother-sister and her daughter?
//
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:28:12am |
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reine.de.tout Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:28:25am |
re: #162 Gus 802
What are they? Sister? Friends? Cousins? Mother-sister and her daughter?
//
Cousins of William & Harry - they are sisters, Andrew and Fergie's daughters.
That blue dress is one of the most awful things I've ever seen in my life.
It doesn't fit her properly. The seams on that thing are puckered and uneven.
It's a mess of a dress. I can't believe she couldn't find something in better taste to wear.
| 165 |
Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:29:55am |
re: #164 reine.de.tout
Cousins of William & Harry - they are sisters, Andrew and Fergie's daughters.
That blue dress is one of the most awful things I've ever seen in my life.
It doesn't fit her properly. The seams on that thing are puckered and uneven.
It's a mess of a dress. I can't believe she couldn't find something in better taste to wear.
Looks like upholstery fabric.
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:30:33am |
My mom did not like the Queen wearing yellow.
Had to call me just to say that.
Lol.
| 168 |
reine.de.tout Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:31:00am |
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:31:27am |
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prairiefire Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:31:47am |
re: #167 Varek Raith
My mom did not like the Queen wearing yellow.
Had to call me just to say that.
Lol.
I thought she looked fine. I thought she looked like she didn't feel to well.
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prairiefire Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:32:55am |
re: #164 reine.de.tout
Is the hem supposed to look that awful?
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:33:28am |
re: #169 iceweasel
Hey Gus! How goes it?
Meh. It's going. Almost went back to sleep before but I decided to get up and do some chit. Walked to the store(s) and got a cup of coffee and a pack of cigs. Cold and windy out. The wind makes it cold of course. Sunny though but that's not a big deal to me -- it's usually sunny. What's up on your end?
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:34:01am |
re: #170 prairiefire
I thought she looked fine. I thought she looked like she didn't feel to well.
Hungover was my first thought.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:35:09am |
Where's the toad farmer KT?
Frog lovers worldwide unite for 'Save the Frogs' day
Or is that rancher. And can you herd toads?
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:35:18am |
re: #172 Gus 802
Meh. It's going. Almost went back to sleep before but I decided to get up and do some chit. Walked to the store(s) and got a cup of coffee and a pack of cigs. Cold and windy out. The wind makes it cold of course. Sunny though but that's not a big deal to me -- it's usually sunny. What's up on your end?
The same-- what I said above and in email. Windy as hell here, also sunny. This is 'summer', they tell me.
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reine.de.tout Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:35:49am |
re: #171 prairiefire
Is the hem supposed to look that awful?
I would think NOT. Look at it. There's a partial seam showing at one section of the hem. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And the fabric looks pulled, like whoever constructed the thing either cut it wrong, or pulled and tugged at it while they were sewing. Gah. I used to sew quite a bit - and there is NOTHING about that dress that would pass muster.
| 177 |
Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:36:13am |
Later gators.
Time for yard work.
:)
/I'm just going to throw stuff until those broken branches come down.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:36:57am |
re: #175 iceweasel
The same-- what I said above and in email. Windy as hell here, also sunny. This is 'summer', they tell me.
I need a vacation. Somewhere tropical and away from noise, news... To be able to sleep for hours on end and have a quiet relaxing time without worrying about surviving.
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Winny Spencer Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:41:34am |
re: #176 reine.de.tout
I would think NOT. Look at it. There's a partial seam showing at one section of the hem. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And the fabric looks pulled, like whoever constructed the thing either cut it wrong, or pulled and tugged at it while they were sewing. Gah. I used to sew quite a bit - and there is NOTHING about that dress that would pass muster.
I think it looks fine? Mind you, all things related to fashion are utterly incomprehensible to me.
| 182 |
Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:41:44am |
Another day of Obama derangement. Was looking at Drudge. I hardly go there anymore. Time to movie on.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:43:07am |
re: #182 Gus 802
Another day of Obama derangement. Was looking at Drudge. I hardly go there anymore. Time to movie on.
You'd think with the $ he has he'd have redone that site at some point. It hurts just to look at it. Like Pammy's but worse.
| 184 |
jaunte Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:43:12am |
Roger Ebert tweets:
about a cross-carrying hermit with severe revenge fantasies:
In 2008, he spoke to the Watauga Democrat, complaining that nobody in Boone, N.C., would speak to him during a three-day visit. He called the city “the most unholy” he’d ever been through, Las Vegas included.“I would say that God will probably put a tornado through this town,” he was quoted about Boone. “It’s going to perish, trust me.”
[Link: www.gainesvilleregister.com...]
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justaminute Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:43:17am |
re: #176 reine.de.tout
I would think NOT. Look at it. There's a partial seam showing at one section of the hem. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And the fabric looks pulled, like whoever constructed the thing either cut it wrong, or pulled and tugged at it while they were sewing. Gah. I used to sew quite a bit - and there is NOTHING about that dress that would pass muster.
Reine, I am afraid that's the style now. I've been out shopping for clothes lately and it's getting started here. Not a fan.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:43:23am |
Gadzooks.
This looks like "cheap" fun.
[Link: dailydeals.latimes.com...]
17 bucks for 2 1/2 hour whale watching tour.
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jaunte Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:45:22am |
re: #186 Gus 802
"Complimentary “whale check” if you don’t see a whale and/or dolphin"
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:45:46am |
re: #186 Gus 802
Gadzooks.
This looks like "cheap" fun.
[Link: dailydeals.latimes.com...]
17 bucks for 2 1/2 hour whale watching tour.
I did one of those once in Nantucket. It was fun.
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prairiefire Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:45:56am |
re: #185 justaminute
Reine, I am afraid that's the style now. I've been out shopping for clothes lately and it's getting started here. Not a fan.
That's like my mother in law talking about the messy style of hair on starlets, etc. "I just want to take a comb to her head!"
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:49:23am |
re: #174 Gus 802
Where's the toad farmer KT?
Frog lovers worldwide unite for 'Save the Frogs' day
Or is that rancher. And can you herd toads?
Frogs!
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jaunte Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:50:45am |
Beautiful wooden house/five linked cottages in the mountains outside of Tokyo:InBetween House
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justaminute Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:52:32am |
re: #190 prairiefire
That's like my mother in law talking about the messy style of hair on starlets, etc. "I just want to take a comb to her head!"
I got a summer light sweater and on one side it looks like it was knit too tight and my daughter said to try it on. It was cute on but butt ugly hanging up. I bought it.
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prairiefire Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:52:41am |
re: #191 Stanley Sea
Tim Gunn's (love him) Hits and Misses:[Link: abcnews.go.com...]
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:55:04am |
re: #189 iceweasel
I did one of those once in Nantucket. It was fun.
17 bucks seems cheap for this day and age.
Did a short sail trip from SF Marina to Angel Island once. Got rather wet.
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prairiefire Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:57:59am |
re: #195 prairiefire
Tim Gunn's (love him) Hits and Misses:[Link: abcnews.go.com...]
: ( Not enough dresses!!
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:58:24am |
re: #49 RogueOne
Her story is a rough one. One of the original deals was that he would have only one wife too, that one she's still pretty pissed over. That's the reason I was curious about the presidents father and his immigration paperwork the other day.
Does that mean she's pissed because he went ahead and took another wife anyway?
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jaunte Sat, Apr 30, 2011 9:00:55am |
Armando Iannucci tweets:
My God, what IS she wearing? Oh, hang on, I'm watching Wife Swap USA.
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Apr 30, 2011 9:03:48am |
re: #68 WindUpBird
I have seen many many Juggalos in Portland, in SE, standing outside venues for Mushroomhead (a band I quite like sometimes) they're not unusual here, they're actually quite well behaved from what i've seen, they're like goths, but more nerdy and younger. they hang out at the mall, they wear the ICP merch, they have face paint (usually not full facepaint, usually just enough to mark them as a juggalo) I usually see them in the game store or the food court
manhattan though!
I dunno, I bet portland jaggalos and manhattan juggalos ar eprobably going to be very different just because of location
I'm not sure if I have never seen these people, or if I just didn't identify them as a separate subspecies.
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Lidane Sat, Apr 30, 2011 9:26:46am |
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justaminute Sat, Apr 30, 2011 9:43:37am |
My son is graduating from flight school in the Navy next month and getting his wings. This weekend he had to do a cross country to finish his training. They flew from Corpus Christie, TX to Minneapolis, MN. I guess CO's take advantage of a student's requirements. They had 3 CO's they had to drop off in various cities and pick up going back. My son just called and said, Mom, it was so exciting "My wings got severely iced up and in one city I was landing in we had severe wind shear." These next 8 years are going to be really exciting if I live through it. :(
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ProGunLiberal Sat, Apr 30, 2011 9:49:53am |
By the Way, NATO told Qaddafi to go blow himself.
4:19pm
NATO has also rejected Gaddafi's latest ceasefire offer, with one NATO official telling the AFP news agency that the alliance wants to see "not words, but actions".
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Apr 30, 2011 9:54:57am |
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Ericus58 Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:01:57am |
Egypt's Muslim Brothers plan big political role
[Link: seattletimes.nwsource.com...]
"The once outlawed Muslim Brotherhood says it will contest half of the seats in Egypt's parliamentary elections in September, revealing plans to become a major force in the country's post-revolution politics.
.....................
At a news conference Saturday, the Brotherhood named the leaders of its new Freedom and Justice party.
The party will test to what extent the Brotherhood is willing to moderate its rigid religious discourse to try to win broader political support."
Well, that kinda throws a monkey wrench in the works....
Mubarak had to go, no doubt. But the future Egypt is looking a bit dark...
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:10:14am |
re: #203 justaminute
My son is graduating from flight school in the Navy next month and getting his wings. This weekend he had to do a cross country to finish his training. They flew from Corpus Christie, TX to Minneapolis, MN. I guess CO's take advantage of a student's requirements. They had 3 CO's they had to drop off in various cities and pick up going back. My son just called and said, Mom, it was so exciting "My wings got severely iced up and in one city I was landing in we had severe wind shear." These next 8 years are going to be really exciting if I live through it. :(
Congratulations!
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ProGunLiberal Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:12:34am |
Qaddafi's forces did another incursion into Tunisia.
5:18am
Government troops outran a rebel outpost on the Tunisian border, with fighting spilling onto Tunisian territory.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:17:50am |
Syrian baathists resign over assad's crackdown ...
[Link: www.jpost.com...]
If the bad guys in Syria and Iran keep power, it will be a disaster. We ( the good guys) need a "win" somewhere ...
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:20:53am |
re: #211 _RememberTonyC
India is making sweeping anti-corruption reforms. That's a win for the good guys.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:22:55am |
re: #212 Obdicut
India is making sweeping anti-corruption reforms. That's a win for the good guys.
Good news for sure ... But India was already what I would describe as a "good guy.". We need some of the really bad actors to flip.
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Lidane Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:25:42am |
Oops:
Romney Stumbles Over 'Hang Him' Gaffe Aimed At Obama
In New Hampshire Friday, Mitt Romney stumbled over a line about pinning the nation's melancholy on President Obama that found him scrambling to back away from a quote suggesting Republicans are going to "hang" Obama with America's problems in 2012.
"Uh, so to speak -- metaphorically," Romney quickly corrected, before adding, "you have to be careful these days, I've learned that."
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ProGunLiberal Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:30:35am |
Oh boy:
According to Reuters, a Reuters cameraman who crossed into Libya from Dehiba saw the bodies of three Khadafy soldiers on the road. Also, Tunisia is shutting down at least one border crossing with Libya, and installing barbed wire defenses against further incursions, while beefing up its border guard presence along the Libyan border.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:36:12am |
re: #203 justaminute
My son is graduating from flight school in the Navy next month and getting his wings. This weekend he had to do a cross country to finish his training. They flew from Corpus Christie, TX to Minneapolis, MN. I guess CO's take advantage of a student's requirements. They had 3 CO's they had to drop off in various cities and pick up going back. My son just called and said, Mom, it was so exciting "My wings got severely iced up and in one city I was landing in we had severe wind shear." These next 8 years are going to be really exciting if I live through it. :(
Oh, oh, oh, oh. That was my dream.
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Targetpractice Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:38:58am |
Remember King & Spalding, the law firm that took and then dropped the DOMA defense case on behalf of the House GOP? Well, they're in Virginian news, as our AG just terminated his office's working relationship with them. The reason?
Accusing them of cowardice for dropping the DOMA case.
Virginia AG cancels King & Spalding work for state after "obsequious act of weakness" in DOMA case
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has terminated his office's relationship with King & Spalding, the Atlanta law firm that abrubtly dropped the U.S. House of Representatives as a client for purposes of defending the Defense of Marriage Act.
"King & Spalding's willingness to drop a client, the U.S. House of Representatives, in connection with the lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was such an obsequious act of weakness that I feel compelled to end your legal association with Virginia so that there is no chance that one of my legal clients will be put in the embarrassing and difficult situation like the client you walked away from, the House of Representatives," Cuccinelli said in a letter to Joseph Lynch in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.
A copy of the letter was made available to The Washington Examiner. A request from the newspaper for a response has been emailed to Lynch.
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justaminute Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:43:24am |
re: #218 Gus 802
Oh, oh, oh, oh. That was my dream.
It was my son's since he was 8. I just don't know what he is going to do when the 8 years are up. Airline pilots are such under paid jobs now. He requested the P3 slot because transition is easier than jets. He wants to fly for FedEx when he gets out.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:48:51am |
About to meet my Dad's GIRLFRIEND for the first time. I'm kinda nervous.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:50:59am |
re: #217 Gus 802
Rather chilly late April day here.
We're a little cool here too. We've been 10-15 degrees below average for months. They claim it's going to be 70 tomorrow but I'll believe it when I see it.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:51:41am |
re: #222 Killgore Trout
We're a little cool here too. We've been 10-15 degrees below average for months. They claim it's going to be 70 tomorrow but I'll believe it when I see it.
They said 70 for Monday here. Kind of windy too but that's died down.
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justaminute Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:53:14am |
re: #221 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
About to meet my Dad's GIRLFRIEND for the first time. I'm kinda nervous.
My dad has a new girlfriend and he's 84. Their both in the same assisted living. I guess you never get too old.
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:53:28am |
re: #221 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
About to meet my Dad's GIRLFRIEND for the first time. I'm kinda nervous.
Don't hit on her :)
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jaunte Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:54:43am |
re: #222 Killgore Trout
Today in Houston it's 86F, 60% humidity. Just the day to work outside!
Average April temps here normally range 69F-79F.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:56:42am |
re: #220 justaminute
It was my son's since he was 8. I just don't know what he is going to do when the 8 years are up. Airline pilots are such under paid jobs now. He requested the P3 slot because transition is easier than jets. He wants to fly for FedEx when he gets out.
That got me wondering about getting a multi-engine rating if you're a fighter pilot. I imagine it would be easy enough to get.
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albusteve Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:57:19am |
re: #221 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
About to meet my Dad's GIRLFRIEND for the first time. I'm kinda nervous.
check yer fly bro
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:07:47am |
re: #226 jaunte
Today in Houston it's 86F, 60% humidity. Just the day to work outside!
Average April temps here normally range 69F-79F.
That's pretty warm.
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jaunte Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:08:57am |
re: #230 Gus 802
Water goes in, water comes out; I can't explain it.
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:13:18am |
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:13:32am |
Go RISD! I almost applied to RISD. Even got some glowing recommendation from a RISD grad instructor. What's wrong with me? I even applied to Cornell. I could have graduated years ago and had a degree from a primo university.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:17:49am |
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Targetpractice Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:20:24am |
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albusteve Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:20:55am |
whoa...
Widespread Panic headlines the Taos Solar Music Festival this year, headed by the incomparable Jimmy Herring playing guitar...met him one time back in DC, very nice guy and hugely respected
here's his take on Little Wing...
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_RememberTonyC Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:21:37am |
re: #203 justaminute
My son is graduating from flight school in the Navy next month and getting his wings. This weekend he had to do a cross country to finish his training. They flew from Corpus Christie, TX to Minneapolis, MN. I guess CO's take advantage of a student's requirements. They had 3 CO's they had to drop off in various cities and pick up going back. My son just called and said, Mom, it was so exciting "My wings got severely iced up and in one city I was landing in we had severe wind shear." These next 8 years are going to be really exciting if I live through it. :(
Kudos and congrats!
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:22:41am |
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:23:58am |
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:29:27am |
re: #249 Gus 802
Weird. That's giving me a Java script error.
Yeah, same here.
If you just hit Ok... a lot, it'll still work.
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:32:50am |
BEHOLD!
Image: 1.jpg
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:34:39am |
re: #252 Varek Raith
BEHOLD!
Image: 1.jpg
Layers!!11ty
Some day 100 years from now, people will look back at this time...
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:37:31am |
re: #253 Gus 802
Layers!!11ty
Some day 100 years from now, people will look back at this time...
..and they 'll ask: Why didn't Gus talk abiut the wedding?
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:37:37am |
re: #243 albusteve
whoa...
Widespread Panic headlines the Taos Solar Music Festival this year, headed by the incomparable Jimmy Herring playing guitar...met him one time back in DC, very nice guy and hugely respected
here's his take on Little Wing...[Video]
Amazing version of Little Wing! thanks for that..I'm not half the guitarist as him.. But since we all are critics..
I don't like the way he slides the B7th to A7th.. I'm old school with that..And I don't like how he incorporates the Em Vamp lead into a rock song.. It's got too much fusion in it.. It's a rock song damn it! Stick with the way Jimmi played it.. None of that 1-2-4 shit on the high E and B strings...
/Man am I in trouble now.. But that style doesn't sound right to me.. I think i can play the lead better with more emotion...
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:39:15am |
re: #253 Gus 802
Layers!!11ty
Some day 100 years from now, people will look back at this time...
How's your day going?
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:40:18am |
re: #256 researchok
How's your day going?
Meh. Up and down. I really need more coffee. Just had one cup from the local coffee shop. Getting some car insurance quotes. Yourself?
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:40:40am |
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:40:50am |
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albusteve Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:42:39am |
re: #255 HoosierHoops
Amazing version of Little Wing! thanks for that..I'm not half the guitarist as him.. But since we all are critics..
I don't like the way he slides the B7th to A7th.. I'm old school with that..And I don't like how he incorporates the Em Vamp lead into a rock song.. It's got too much fusion in it.. It's a rock song damn it! Stick with the way Jimmi played it.. None of that 1-2-4 shit on the high E and B strings...
/Man am I in trouble now.. But that style doesn't sound right to me.. I think i can play the lead better with more emotion...
Herring plays everything, he gets off some great fusion/jazz riffs...I met him at the Lisner in DC during the huge benefit where they re-did Waiting For Columbus in 02....there were 24 guest musicians and I hung out at the sound check and backstage during the show....Herring was treated like musical royalty
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:42:53am |
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:43:48am |
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:44:54am |
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:45:54am |
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allegro Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:47:08am |
re: #267 Varek Raith
I wonder how one lives with that kind of hatred?
Alone. (preferably... far far away...)
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:48:29am |
re: #263 albusteve
Herring plays everything, he gets off some great fusion/jazz riffs...I met him at the Lisner in DC during the huge benefit where they re-did Waiting For Columbus in 02...there were 24 guest musicians and I hung out at the sound check and backstage during the show...Herring was treated like musical royalty
He is an amazing guitarist...I guess I didn't like the fusion version of the main lead...
My only claim to fame was hanging out one time with Roger Buffalo on the Dead board in Santa Cruz..
/ I told a Dead joke here once a couple of years ago and got some serious down dings.. some people have no sense of humor about bands..LOL
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:48:45am |
re: #268 Gus 802
re: #267 Varek Raith
[Link: twitter.com...]
Yikes. Here's what he needs to do...
Image: funny-pictures-knoks-dem-rite-owt.jpg
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:50:00am |
re: #270 HoosierHoops
He is an amazing guitarist...I guess I didn't like the fusion version of the main lead...
My only claim to fame was hanging out one time with Roger Buffalo on the Dead board in Santa Cruz..
/ I told a Dead joke here once a couple of years ago and got some serious down dings.. some people have no sense of humor about bands..LOL
Howdy Hoops. ;)
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:50:32am |
re: #267 Varek Raith
I wonder how one lives with that kind of hatred?
They don't (unless yjey live an an Idaho compoung
Otherwise, compartmentalization
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researchok Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:52:20am |
I really need to work on my non existent typing skills
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:52:28am |
re: #272 Gus 802
Howdy Hoops. ;)
Who are you? I walked Winston now he is sleeping on my lap...Lazy dog
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A Man for all Seasons Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:53:21am |
re: #275 HoosierHoops
WhoHow are you? I walked Winston now he is sleeping on my lap...Lazy dog
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:53:59am |
re: #275 HoosierHoops
Who are you? I walked Winston now he is sleeping on my lap...Lazy dog
I know you meant "how" :) Procrastinating. But things are going OK. Glad you didn't get blown away by the wind.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:54:43am |
re: #274 researchok
I really need to work on my non existent typing skills
Do what most everyone else does on the internet. Type anything.
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Targetpractice Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:59:20am |
re: #283 researchok
Miss me yet?
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out...cause I don't want ass-prints on my new door!
//
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albusteve Sat, Apr 30, 2011 11:59:51am |
re: #270 HoosierHoops
He is an amazing guitarist...I guess I didn't like the fusion version of the main lead...
My only claim to fame was hanging out one time with Roger Buffalo on the Dead board in Santa Cruz..
/ I told a Dead joke here once a couple of years ago and got some serious down dings.. some people have no sense of humor about bands..LOL
me neither, but it was brief...
I don't claim any fame, but I traveled alot and paid big bucks to get myself on the inside of the Little Feat big dog fans, then I was one myself!
it was at the Lisner where I met Levon Helm and almost pee'd myself....he walked right up to me standing there and introduced himself!...shit happens....once I figured out how to work it, via tour managers etc, I was in....when you explain you've come 1000 miles for two shows, more often than not they toss me a VIP Backstage pass and presto, the rest was hidtory...I sat for a half hour drinking beer with John Hiatt in Ann Arbor, just him and me while his crew broke down his stuff....man, I had loved that guy for decades....I digress
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:01:27pm |
re: #286 Gus 802
He said he'd be taking it easier on Sundays. I approve.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:02:28pm |
re: #290 Obdicut
He said he'd be taking it easier on Sundays. I approve.
Ah. OK. I missed that. It's Saturday though. :) Sure did post a lot yesterday.
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Targetpractice Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:02:37pm |
re: #290 Obdicut
He said he'd be taking it easier on Sundays. I approve.
But...it's Saturday. I'm getting bored! Who does he think he, the guy who runs this place?!
///
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:03:01pm |
re: #292 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
But...it's Saturday. I'm getting bored! Who does he think he, the guy who runs this place?!
///
I demand a refund!
//
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Varek Raith Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:03:26pm |
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:03:34pm |
re: #291 Gus 802
Ah. OK. I missed that. It's Saturday though. :) Sure did post a lot yesterday.
It is? Awesome. I have an extra day.
Nifty.
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Targetpractice Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:03:38pm |
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:04:36pm |
re: #295 Obdicut
It is? Awesome. I have an extra day.
Nifty.
Skipped a day? I haven't done that in a while.
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Obdicut Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:05:48pm |
re: #297 Gus 802
I don't have any actual deadlines due until next week, and my wife's on vacation. I should have known, though, since my friend's party I'm going to tonight hasn't happened yet.
Chronology will not be my strong suit.
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Targetpractice Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:09:10pm |
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Targetpractice Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:10:18pm |
re: #297 Gus 802
Skipped a day? I haven't done that in a while.
Heh, that's not as bad as both my folks. They were an entire week behind, absolutely convinced that my birthday was next week.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:11:17pm |
re: #301 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Heh, that's not as bad as both my folks. They were an entire week behind, absolutely convinced that my birthday was next week.
Did they insist your were wrong?
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Targetpractice Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:13:53pm |
re: #303 Gus 802
Did they insist your were wrong?
No, they both got smacked dead between the eyes with the realization yesterday. Which is hilarious, because all week, I've been talking about what we'd be doing this weekend to celebrate.
Enough to make a guy feel unloved.../
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albusteve Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:15:04pm |
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:18:52pm |
re: #306 Gus 802
Hey Ice! You there?
I'm here!
Glasgow Celebrates Royal Wedding; ''National Shame'' Ensues
Heh.
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Winny Spencer Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:19:06pm |
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Targetpractice Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:20:15pm |
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:20:35pm |
re: #311 iceweasel
I'm here!
Glasgow Celebrates Royal Wedding; ''National Shame'' EnsuesHeh.
Hey. Yeah, saw that. Too much booze.
Saw this earlier though about the UK...
@andersoncooper Anderson Cooper
I love London, but Brits drink 2 much. In 20 min I just saw 25 drunks, 3 vomiters, 5 public pee-ers, and 4 passed out people. Yuck
He was there for the wedding.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:20:53pm |
re: #313 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Any clue what app that is? Because I've got an iPad and three cats who'd get a kick out of that.
I have no idea.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:22:01pm |
re: #314 Gus 802
Hey. Yeah, saw that. Too much booze.
Saw this earlier though about the UK...
@andersoncooper Anderson Cooper
He was there for the wedding.
Sounds about right./
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:23:13pm |
I believe Friday nights in London are traditionally celebrated by drinking, smashing shop windows and throwing up a curry. /
Where's wozzablog, he'll back me up!
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Jimmah Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:29:07pm |
re: #314 Gus 802
Hey. Yeah, saw that. Too much booze.
Saw this earlier though about the UK...
@andersoncooper Anderson Cooper
He was there for the wedding.
I've heard that people in Amsterdam are shocked by the amount of weed the Brits smoke too - they think we're crazy.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:30:04pm |
re: #318 Jimmah
I've heard that people in Amsterdam are shocked by the amount of weed the Brits smoke too - they think we're crazy.
From Amsterdam? That must be a lot of weed.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:32:57pm |
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Jimmah Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:34:36pm |
re: #319 Gus 802
From Amsterdam? That must be a lot of weed.
I think the local Dutch people are more easy going about the whole business because they know that getting it is totally unproblematic for them. I think people are more likely to abuse the stuff when supply is intermittent and quality is hit and miss.
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:35:03pm |
re: #320 iceweasel
Brits on holiday are terrifying.
When we went to Quebec on weekend in the 70s we were kind of taken aback. It was this massive campground. Forget about sleeping and the place reeked of something that we thought might have been cheese fondue mixed in the RV septic tanks. Don't remember if they went nuts but they were all babbling most of the night.
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:36:15pm |
re: #321 Jimmah
I think the local Dutch people are more easy going about the whole business because they know that getting it is totally unproblematic for them. I think people are more likely to abuse the stuff when supply is intermittent and quality is hit and miss.
It's also just true that Brits on holiday are terrifying. My theory is that you're all so unused to sunshine that it fries your brains. :)
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:36:23pm |
re: #321 Jimmah
I think the local Dutch people are more easy going about the whole business because they know that getting it is totally unproblematic for them. I think people are more likely to abuse the stuff when supply is intermittent and quality is hit and miss.
Here come the Brits on "shore leave" again!
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Jimmah Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:36:24pm |
re: #321 Jimmah
But then again, we also abuse alcohol and there's no supply problem there...
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:37:06pm |
re: #325 Jimmah
But then again, we also abuse alcohol and there's no supply problem there...
What's the legal status of pot in the UK?
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BARACK THE VOTE Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:37:46pm |
re: #325 Jimmah
But then again, we also abuse alcohol and there's no supply problem there...
But there used to be-- pub's early closing times. I think a lot of people developed this culture where you drink like the place is about to shut, ordering two at a time.
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Jimmah Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:39:43pm |
re: #323 iceweasel
It's also just true that Brits on holiday are terrifying. My theory is that you're all so unused to sunshine that it fries your brains. :)
Oh yeah - I'd advise anyone thinking of a European trip to stick to the cultural spots and avoid the popular Brit destinations like Lanzarote, Ibiza, Tenerife, Costa Del Sol etc. Nightmare.
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Jimmah Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:40:43pm |
re: #326 Gus 802
What's the legal status of pot in the UK?
Illegal, but you are unlikely to get busted unless you walk right up to a bobby and offer him a toke.
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Jimmah Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:50:20pm |
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Gus Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:53:59pm |
re: #331 Jimmah
I think the bobbies at 3:40 onwards in this video already had a few :)
[Video]
Blocked in the USA.
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MellyMel Sat, Apr 30, 2011 12:55:30pm |
re: #302 Gus 802
It's cute, but by virtue of the price tag of an iPad, my cats would automatically ignore it. Now, a cardboard box? Good times!
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Jimmah Sat, Apr 30, 2011 1:00:02pm |
re: #335 Gus 802
Same thing. :)
Damn. This is what I use when I'm trying to watch stuff that's not meant for UK eyes - like Colbert, John Stewart etc. Might work for you:
(does place an ad banner at the top of your page while you are logged into it though)
[Link: hotspotshield.com...]
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reine.de.tout Sat, Apr 30, 2011 1:00:11pm |
re: #305 Winny Spencer
Cats are awesome.
Yep.
And here's a question: Do big cats like catnip like small cats do?
Here's the answer:
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Winny Spencer Sat, Apr 30, 2011 1:10:40pm |
Growing up, my whole family except for me was allergic to both cats and dogs.
Luckily, my aunt had cats, and new kittens every summer. Sweet memories.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Sat, Apr 30, 2011 6:17:04pm |
re: #116 Varek Raith
BP is a corporation.
A corporation now has rights based on an individual.
BP should therefore be charged with 11 counts of murder because of their negligence in the Gulf.
Two edged sword and all that.
hahaha well done
I'd like to see BP put away in supermax! Maybe in solitary. Same with a lot of Wall Street. Ruining the world. Old boy networks.
Corporate personhood = American serfdom
It's comin' guys :)
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