Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 168
Plus, if there are any problems that violence didn't solve, that is just evidence that not enough violence was used.
"Oh and why do you capitalize the 'middle east'? Is it a country now, worthy of promotion to a proper noun?"
Doesn't need to be a country. Region names are capitalized when they stand alone and are widely understood to designate a specific geographic (or geopolitical) area. e.g. Southern California, the Bay Area, the Middle East.
Should have been modded +4 Whoosh
If mercenaries can find work in the middle east, why can't we hire them to find and dispose of the people making withdrawals from the bank accounts of the "premium rate" numbers?
At a guess, either because you are not looking in the right places or because you are not offering enough money. What have you tried so far?
This just really seems like one of those problems that some good old fashioned violence would be great for solving/deterring.
Right. After all, it's working so well in the Middle East, and it's not like your "mercenaries" have a record of killing the wrong people or anything.
Wait, what? You answer a rhetorical question by telling me that the mercenaries are mine? And that you have a record of their kill statistics?
Oh and why do you capitalize the 'middle east'? Is it a country now, worthy of promotion to a proper noun?
If you could just open your mouth for a second, I'd like to introduce it to your foot.
So the people are left with one choice, the ballot box.
Four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soapbox, ballot box, jury box, ammo box - use in that order.
We have 2 left to use....
Whoever modded you troll is a fucking liberty troll.
If mercenaries can find work in the middle east, why can't we hire them to find and dispose of the people making withdrawals from the bank accounts of the "premium rate" numbers?
This just really seems like one of those problems that some good old fashioned violence would be great for solving/deterring.
There's no reason to emphasize.
Ok, well as long as we agree that it's in human nature to empathize with other humans...
Vote the fuckers out.
Sorry to undo all my mods to this topic, but when I saw this blurb of naivety I had to respond.
Votes no longer work in the USA. Votes quit working when JFK was assassinated. From that very moment onward, bullets are worth more than ballots.
The monster's claws/roots now run too deep in the system to be dethroned by simply being out-voted. I've labeled my government officials as tyrants, IMHO, rightfully so. I've told my friends and family my new mantra: "Bullets > Ballots". I am biding my time until I and my fellow Americans can bring arms against the tyrants and fight the GOOD fight.
Oh I'm very jealous. I'd like to know what to put in my contracts so that I get a bonus when I resign.
I do agree with the parent's original premise that no one should be treated as a criminal until proven guilty of a crime. Its just really hard to feel sorry for someone who makes more than I will in my working career just for quitting his job.
This isn't exactly the same as the manager that had his reputation ruined because of planted kiddie porn, but it is in the same vein.
I think you are misled in thinking that he received a bonus for his resignation. Either that, or you believe that the contracts that established ownership of his stock options should, for whatever your reasoning, be null and void.
I am getting a sense of entitlement coming from you. In the form of jealously and resentment towards those who find more success than yourself. The reason you find it hard to empathize with your fellow man is that you feel entitled to his successes. Not only have you made that clear, but you've also managed to place yourself on a pedestal above Hurd such that you can explain away your statements as taking the Moral Highground.
However I find it VERY hard to feel bad for someone that makes over 1000 times what the average middle class salaried worker makes.
Why? Are you a bigot toward people with better advantage in life than yourself? Perhaps you are jealous? Why does ones monetary worth make on iota of difference in your ability to empathize; feel human compassion? He is no Bernie Madoff or Tom Petters...
Any guesses why I was granted that right?
Because it's in the Constitution?
That would be how, I was fishing for why.
Meanwhile, here in the west the constitution is still king. You know, that little thing that protects you against random acts from the government
I find it a sad state of affairs when the general consensus is that I need protection from my government. It should be that the government needs protection from us, the people. I'm the one with the right to bear arms. Any guesses why I was granted that right?
We do not seem to have any vision when it comes to things like alternative energy, reducing our energy consumption, and industrial efficiency.
Yeah. We also don't seem to even have much heavy industry. That's where all the Once-American-Now-Multi-National-Corporations took the jobs to. So why worry about something that doesn't pertain to us?
I'm glad I have it.
(At least for now... my fellow US citizens seem to be completely blind to the forces at work to destroy our privacy.)
You'd be better off just making the car completely burn the fuel in the first place.
I forget the name, but I'm pretty sure I've read an article linked from
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
