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  • P10P10 Registered User regular
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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    SammyF wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    SammyF wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    I am very not happy about the IRS targeting people based on their politics.

    Somewhere I have a clip of Obama joking about people getting audited... It's not funny now.

    There's a slightly broader problem here where recent evolutions of campaign finance laws have caused a proliferation of 501(c)(4)'s that engage in political campaigning, and the FEC has been effectively neutered as a regulatory agency with respect to those 501(c)(4)'s, and so the only way to keep them anywhere approaching above-board is to check their taxes to make sure they are behaving in a way in which they are entitled to their 501(c)(4) status, and moreover there are many, many more right-leaning 501(c)(4)'s that were started over the last couple of years than left-leaning 501(c)(4)'s, and establishing any policy in which the IRS wants to check those new 501(c)(4)'s for the purposes of ensuring that current campaign finance law is being observed without auditing every 501(c)(4) started in the last couple of years (including those non-political 501(c)(4)'s) will require a delimiting criteria that is inherently political in nature.

    Having said that, I acknowledge that this particular implementation of a policy sucks balls.

    No one of this stuff matters - it's a distraction to talk about it.

    I actually tend to disagree with the notion that "only the facts that are important to me matters" when most people use them, I'm afraid. I am not afraid of money being involved in politics; I come from a state generally referred to the wild west of campaign finance, but we also require full disclosure of all contributions. Abuse of the 501(c)(4) for political purposes will undermine disclosure, and so it's worth taking that seriously, even if doesn't fit conveniently with anyone's sense of outrage.

    No... I mean that bringing up opinions on the legitimacy of the 501(c)(4) designation is a distraction from the issue of overt politically biased scrutiny of applicants.

    Scrutiny which didn't lead to persecution which wasn't handed down from the Oval Office, which was ended the minute someone in Washington found out they were doing.

    Yeah. Obama's out to get all of you rethuglicans

    Why do you have to be so goddamned flippant, AMFE. Am I blaming the President? No. I am saying that if nobody gets canned, then it's clear the President isn't upset enough about this to do more than waggle his finger.

    Cop onto yourself, mate.
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  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    kaleedity wrote: »
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    This is unreal.

    I'm trying to forward a port on my cable modem, for which I apparently need a "password of the day" from Comcast. Call up their tech support, lady tells me after a 15-minute call that there's a separate tech support line for my specific situation.

    That you have to pay for.

    buy a cable modem and never use a comcast cable modem ever again

    in other news I got comcast's $249.99 charge on my bill for my free installation to disappear

    Can- can you do that?

    Would they register it to my account and junk, or would they deliberately cockblock me?
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  • AManFromEarthAManFromEarth Their ideas are old and their ideas are bad. Risk is our business.Registered User regular
    Strip Search was good.
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  • SarksusSarksus TEN FUCKING DOLLARS Registered User regular
    stop @'ing me you hooligans
  • GooeyGooey Registered User regular
    hey guys i would appreciate removing the @ for me

    the notification is annoying

    thanks
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  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    I have something to say about this IRS thing, I'll just head over to the Obama thread and-

    good lord the screaming

    *backs away slowly*

    say it here

    we'll have a well-reasoned and respectful discussion about it!

    I just think it's extremely problematic for the IRS to be focusing energy based on assumed political affiliation of its targets. It's a huge line to cross in terms of honest government and people's belief in the system. It's terrible PR as well to be hassling the very groups that are motivated by big, stupid, inefficient government.

    As we get closer to ACA implementation I cannot imagine a reason why any Democrat would support or defend efforts to prove us right when we say government can't be trusted to deal fairly with people and ought to be strangled as much as possible.

    If no one gets fired over this I'll have to conclude that the Obama admin is basically corrupted by political desire to win and views me as an enemy or an impediment, rather than a citizen. This is the line for me, and if we cross it without some consequences for those who were involved, I'll no longer be able to trust the administration to deal honestly in any other circumstance.


    @ronya @gooey @sarksus and others.

    This is an eminently terrible take away from this.

    It is just so incredibly wrong and horrible I don't know what else to say. Obama didn't like what happened, they had already been told to stop it once again.

    This is not them making YOU an enemy, nor was it stopping any tea party group from getting charitable status under the law.

    I just.

    Come on, man.

    I disagree, and I don't care if Obama didn't like it. I'm sure he's super pissed that this shit came to light!

    Heads need to roll or I can't take him seriously at all. If you want your government big and intrusive, and you don't bother to punish it when it does stuff like this, I can only conclude that the behavior will be tolerated again in the future.

    I am going to point out that you said that if people don't get fired you will assume Obama thinks of you as an enemy and not a citizen.

    Which is different from this new point, which is equally specious. And honestly, while this is stupid, it isn't the kind of fuckup which should require "heads to roll".

    Wiretapping the AP might be.

    Well I get that the level of fuck-acting you'll tolerate from this administration is far far higher. So ok.

    Maybe he's going down the list of Nixon-related crimes and changing them up a bit, like bad political fanfic.

    as a distinct issue, I don't think it'll be possible to have a Nixon today, since tracing anything to the president's inner circle is liable to be highly difficult

    and it has to go well above "this was nominally your responsibility" - it has to go to "you gave the order".
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Pandemic 2 eez boolsheet.

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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Raiding Relics Everyday Registered User regular
    P10 wrote: »
    dc comics publishs captain marvel emotpsyduckh.gif

    you mean Shazam.
  • override367override367 Registered User regular
    madagascar is a shitty dreamworks film
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    skippy are your parts supposed to show up today?

    EVERY PART

    THE UPS GUY IS GOING TO THROW HIS BACK OUT
  • kaleeditykaleedity bad biscuits make the baker broke bro Registered User regular
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    kaleedity wrote: »
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    This is unreal.

    I'm trying to forward a port on my cable modem, for which I apparently need a "password of the day" from Comcast. Call up their tech support, lady tells me after a 15-minute call that there's a separate tech support line for my specific situation.

    That you have to pay for.

    buy a cable modem and never use a comcast cable modem ever again

    in other news I got comcast's $249.99 charge on my bill for my free installation to disappear

    Can- can you do that?

    Would they register it to my account and junk, or would they deliberately cockblock me?

    You have to give them the MAC and a number that might be on the modem box. Like, the package it's sold in, not on the modem itself. And you don't have to pay them the monthly charge for it.

    Also the motorola I have had 50% better throughput than the newest comcast modem the installer had last month when they were installing in my new house.
  • P10P10 Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    P10 wrote: »
    dc comics publishs captain marvel emotpsyduckh.gif

    you mean Shazam.
    No, I meant Billy Batson
    P10 on
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    I had to emergency cancel my power supply from the first place I ordered it and reorder it on amazon and pay $4 for 1 day shipping

    BUT THE STARS ARE IN ALIGNMENT
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    spool, how exactly did the Arch-Demon Obamaulauth orchestrate these diabolical scheme when the chain of command between him and the office involved (ie: the head of the IRS) was a Bush appointee?
    What you think "makes sense" has nothing to do with reality. It just has to do with your life experience. And your life experience may only be a small smidgen of reality. Possibly even a distorted account of reality at that. So what this means is that, beginning in the 20th century as our means of decoding nature became more and more powerful, we started realizing our common sense is no longer a tool to pass judgment on whether or not a scientific theory is correct. - Neil Degrasse Tyson
  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    skippy are your parts supposed to show up today?

    EVERY PART

    THE UPS GUY IS GOING TO THROW HIS BACK OUT

    An atomic blast was recorded today in the suburbs south of Austin, TX.
  • 21stCentury21stCentury Raiding Relics Everyday Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    skippy are your parts supposed to show up today?

    EVERY PART

    THE UPS GUY IS GOING TO THROW HIS BACK OUT

    Remember the one thing no one told me, Skippy.

    It's not normal for your computer to literally be on fire.
  • AManFromEarthAManFromEarth Their ideas are old and their ideas are bad. Risk is our business.Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    SammyF wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    SammyF wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    I am very not happy about the IRS targeting people based on their politics.

    Somewhere I have a clip of Obama joking about people getting audited... It's not funny now.

    There's a slightly broader problem here where recent evolutions of campaign finance laws have caused a proliferation of 501(c)(4)'s that engage in political campaigning, and the FEC has been effectively neutered as a regulatory agency with respect to those 501(c)(4)'s, and so the only way to keep them anywhere approaching above-board is to check their taxes to make sure they are behaving in a way in which they are entitled to their 501(c)(4) status, and moreover there are many, many more right-leaning 501(c)(4)'s that were started over the last couple of years than left-leaning 501(c)(4)'s, and establishing any policy in which the IRS wants to check those new 501(c)(4)'s for the purposes of ensuring that current campaign finance law is being observed without auditing every 501(c)(4) started in the last couple of years (including those non-political 501(c)(4)'s) will require a delimiting criteria that is inherently political in nature.

    Having said that, I acknowledge that this particular implementation of a policy sucks balls.

    No one of this stuff matters - it's a distraction to talk about it.

    I actually tend to disagree with the notion that "only the facts that are important to me matters" when most people use them, I'm afraid. I am not afraid of money being involved in politics; I come from a state generally referred to the wild west of campaign finance, but we also require full disclosure of all contributions. Abuse of the 501(c)(4) for political purposes will undermine disclosure, and so it's worth taking that seriously, even if doesn't fit conveniently with anyone's sense of outrage.

    No... I mean that bringing up opinions on the legitimacy of the 501(c)(4) designation is a distraction from the issue of overt politically biased scrutiny of applicants.

    Scrutiny which didn't lead to persecution which wasn't handed down from the Oval Office, which was ended the minute someone in Washington found out they were doing.

    Yeah. Obama's out to get all of you rethuglicans

    Why do you have to be so goddamned flippant, AMFE. Am I blaming the President? No. I am saying that if nobody gets canned, then it's clear the President isn't upset enough about this to do more than waggle his finger.

    Cop onto yourself, mate.

    Are you kidding, dude?
    If no one gets fired over this I'll have to conclude that the Obama admin is basically corrupted by political desire to win and views me as an enemy or an impediment, rather than a citizen.

    I'm flippant because this is a non-story. The IRS office handling these applications did something stupid, it was wrong, and they were told to correct it. Twice.

    Meanwhile the Obama Administration wiretapped the AP and you are pissed off over some IRS bullshit and throwing around terms like "enemy" and "corrupted".

    I wonder where the flippancy comes.
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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Raiding Relics Everyday Registered User regular
    P10 wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    dc comics publishs captain marvel emotpsyduckh.gif

    you mean Shazam.
    No, I meant Billy Batson

    No, i mean his name got retconned.

    His name is Shazam now.
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    skippy are your parts supposed to show up today?

    EVERY PART

    THE UPS GUY IS GOING TO THROW HIS BACK OUT

    An atomic blast was recorded today in the suburbs south of Austin, TX.

    knew I shoulda gone with the aftermarket thermal paste
  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    in this JLU episode they got this captain marvel guy and hes way stronger than superman (at least, more durable and has magic powers)
    so how do any of the previous plotlines where the earth was in danger make sense, captain marvel could presumably just have crushed the entire thanagarian race when they invaded or beat Amazo down

    Well it was past his bed time.
    There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
  • AManFromEarthAManFromEarth Their ideas are old and their ideas are bad. Risk is our business.Registered User regular
    P10 wrote: »
    dc comics publishs captain marvel emotpsyduckh.gif

    marvel also has a captain marvel
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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    gooby through all of this i want you to know that i love you
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    skippy are your parts supposed to show up today?

    EVERY PART

    THE UPS GUY IS GOING TO THROW HIS BACK OUT

    Remember the one thing no one told me, Skippy.

    It's not normal for your computer to literally be on fire.

    dogg

    I built a computer in 2000

    you were like, learning times tables the last time I did this
  • P10P10 Registered User regular
    P10 wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    dc comics publishs captain marvel emotpsyduckh.gif

    you mean Shazam.
    No, I meant Billy Batson

    No, i mean his name got retconned.

    His name is Shazam now.
    N-no... i meant the big red cheese....
  • override367override367 Registered User regular
    actually now that I think about it none of the pre JLU world threats make sense

    guess all the other heroes were on vacation
  • TehSlothTehSloth On that ass like Charmin Registered User regular
    spool, how exactly did the Arch-Demon Obamaulauth orchestrate these diabolical scheme when the chain of command between him and the office involved (ie: the head of the IRS) was a Bush appointee?

    It's not his fault, but he needs to see that the people who were involved are all punished!!

    Like all the punishments that went to the people who dismissed US attorneys for political reasons. Precedents have been set and Obama needs to live up to them.
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    once my computer is assembled I can probably play lol while the rest of its power goes toward folding proteins

    cure for cancer eta ~11pm central
  • Tiger BurningTiger Burning Registered User regular
    The Daily Beast has obtained the screenplay for "Rodham," a new biopic that centers on Hillary Clinton in her 20s and made the 2012 Black List of the top 10 unproduced scripts in Hollywood.

    - Bill's go-to pick-up line (that he's shown using on a waitress): The watermelons in Hope, Ark., are the “firmest, juiciest melons” he’s ever seen.

    /takes notes
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  • 21stCentury21stCentury Raiding Relics Everyday Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    skippy are your parts supposed to show up today?

    EVERY PART

    THE UPS GUY IS GOING TO THROW HIS BACK OUT

    Remember the one thing no one told me, Skippy.

    It's not normal for your computer to literally be on fire.

    dogg

    I built a computer in 2000

    you were like, learning times tables the last time I did this

    i wasn't even born in 2000, Skips McOldsmobile.
  • MadCaddyMadCaddy Riksadvokate Registered User regular
    Seriously though.

    We just had it break that the DoJ was wiretapping the AP under a tenuous THREAT! LEAK! premise.

    And the thing that is pissing off the GOP is what some chucklefuck underfunded office in Ohio got up to two years ago.

    :rotate:

    Wiretapping the AP after giving them embargoed informations isn't analogous to government agencies using profiling.
    Granted, I don't get why Tea Party non-profits being selected for audits is any different than mostly black and Latinos being stopped in NYC for stop and frisk...
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  • ronyaronya hmmm over there!Registered User regular
    like, clinton got caught out on perjury charges because it was trivial to prove that he was the person testifying under oath. no need to hunt down nonexistent records of all presidential communication then!
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    also I am not in the suburbs you disgusting swine
  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Registered User regular
    P10 wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    dc comics publishs captain marvel emotpsyduckh.gif

    you mean Shazam.
    No, I meant Billy Batson

    No, i mean his name got retconned.

    His name is Shazam now.
    No, it isn't. For legal reasons, they have to market him as Shazam, but in-game he can be called Captain Marvel.
  • GooeyGooey Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    skippy are your parts supposed to show up today?

    EVERY PART

    THE UPS GUY IS GOING TO THROW HIS BACK OUT

    enjoy ur windoesn't
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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    spool, how exactly did the Arch-Demon Obamaulauth orchestrate these diabolical scheme when the chain of command between him and the office involved (ie: the head of the IRS) was a Bush appointee?
    spool32 wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    SammyF wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    SammyF wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    I am very not happy about the IRS targeting people based on their politics.

    Somewhere I have a clip of Obama joking about people getting audited... It's not funny now.

    There's a slightly broader problem here where recent evolutions of campaign finance laws have caused a proliferation of 501(c)(4)'s that engage in political campaigning, and the FEC has been effectively neutered as a regulatory agency with respect to those 501(c)(4)'s, and so the only way to keep them anywhere approaching above-board is to check their taxes to make sure they are behaving in a way in which they are entitled to their 501(c)(4) status, and moreover there are many, many more right-leaning 501(c)(4)'s that were started over the last couple of years than left-leaning 501(c)(4)'s, and establishing any policy in which the IRS wants to check those new 501(c)(4)'s for the purposes of ensuring that current campaign finance law is being observed without auditing every 501(c)(4) started in the last couple of years (including those non-political 501(c)(4)'s) will require a delimiting criteria that is inherently political in nature.

    Having said that, I acknowledge that this particular implementation of a policy sucks balls.

    No one of this stuff matters - it's a distraction to talk about it.

    I actually tend to disagree with the notion that "only the facts that are important to me matters" when most people use them, I'm afraid. I am not afraid of money being involved in politics; I come from a state generally referred to the wild west of campaign finance, but we also require full disclosure of all contributions. Abuse of the 501(c)(4) for political purposes will undermine disclosure, and so it's worth taking that seriously, even if doesn't fit conveniently with anyone's sense of outrage.

    No... I mean that bringing up opinions on the legitimacy of the 501(c)(4) designation is a distraction from the issue of overt politically biased scrutiny of applicants.

    Scrutiny which didn't lead to persecution which wasn't handed down from the Oval Office, which was ended the minute someone in Washington found out they were doing.

    Yeah. Obama's out to get all of you rethuglicans

    Why do you have to be so goddamned flippant, AMFE. Am I blaming the President? No. I am saying that if nobody gets canned, then it's clear the President isn't upset enough about this to do more than waggle his finger.

    Cop onto yourself, mate.

    Are you kidding, dude?
    If no one gets fired over this I'll have to conclude that the Obama admin is basically corrupted by political desire to win and views me as an enemy or an impediment, rather than a citizen.

    I'm flippant because this is a non-story. The IRS office handling these applications did something stupid, it was wrong, and they were told to correct it. Twice.

    Meanwhile the Obama Administration wiretapped the AP and you are pissed off over some IRS bullshit and throwing around terms like "enemy" and "corrupted".

    I wonder where the flippancy comes.

    I have enough capacity to be pissed off about both things! But it was the IRS thing that I brought up, so that's what I'm talking about right now.

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3foE9kbmMM

    i forgot aisha tyler was in this kanye song/music video
    from a decade ago

    man.. kanye's been around for a decade o_o
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    I don't really have the time, the know-how, or the confidence to promote my webcomic :C
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    skippy are your parts supposed to show up today?

    EVERY PART

    THE UPS GUY IS GOING TO THROW HIS BACK OUT

    Remember the one thing no one told me, Skippy.

    It's not normal for your computer to literally be on fire.

    dogg

    I built a computer in 2000

    you were like, learning times tables the last time I did this

    i wasn't even born in 2000, Skips McOldsmobile.

    you are lying!
  • EriktheVikingGamerEriktheVikingGamer Barbara Streisand! Registered User regular
    in this JLU episode they got this captain marvel guy and hes way stronger than superman (at least, more durable and has magic powers)
    so how do any of the previous plotlines where the earth was in danger make sense, captain marvel could presumably just have crushed the entire thanagarian race when they invaded or beat Amazo down

    In-timeline Captain Marvel only recently got his powers.
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