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in that case would you like some lemonade
Counterpoint: Elevatorgate.
Ahhh
So turned on by natural selection.
A weirdly appropriate reaction.
What? That really has been how he rolls. I'm glad he did it though! Somebody deserved to get fired, and the only way for him to cool off the heat is to do it fast and high profile.
Most political action committees don't pay taxes. The special question here is whether politically-focused organizations can organize as 501(c)(4)'s in order to avoid paying taxes and avoid disclosing contributions.
Warren Ellis wrote a great graphic novel about the battle of Crecy, with an English longbow archer as the narrator, breaking the fourth wall and talking directly to the reader.
"We have the same intelligence as you. We simply don't have the same cumulative knowledge you do."
yeah probably.
So, you think it's going to be a good thing when Google can take your pictures from Picasa and use them as they want without recompense?
Copyright is an infringement on property rights as well as censorship.
The state is aware of this fact and deems it appropriate.
gives those america hating liberal journalists something to think about at night
have fun at a cia black site, Shiloh. hope you brought your 'sack.
My father-in-law, who is an Archaeologist at Texas A&M, will talk your ear off about how there were geniuses in the clovis era just like there are today. He's quite frustrated by the tendency to assume that ancient peoples were somehow less innovative or resourceful than we are.
In short:
They can't support or oppose specific candidates but they can weigh in on political issues or legislation.
Political action may not be their primary purpose. They can engage in politics as a secondary part of their overall mission.
For example, it's fine for a homeless shelter network to say "Congress should fund homeless shelter more!" and say "we support Senate bill 1234 because it increases funding for homeless shelters!"
your aversion to technolibertarians is leading you to odd places
It does grate me when people act like people in the past were just blubbering imbeciles. Obviously they did not know everything we know but given their knowledge base at the time they did great stuff. People acting like folks still thought the world was round when Columbus was sailing about.
Or like, "Oh yeah, plate armor was totally impractical and you had to be hoisted on to horses and if you fell over you couldn't get up blah blah blah" People aren't going to spend tons of time and money on making something that makes them more likely to die in combat. (Well, more than a couple times at least, I am sure some people have carried some pretty dumb ideas on to the battlefield at at least one point).
Aren't the 501C4 and/or "superPAC" regulations stupidly broken so that they can either avoid disclosing, or only disclose after the election, but still spend unlimited amounts of money?
Care to explain? Because I'll point out that the UN considers copyright to be a human right.
I don't have pictures on Picasa. Do you prefer Nikon or Canon cameras? I mean, since we're jumping around asking each other tangentially-related questions. :P
As Echo pointed out, copyright is censorship; just a legitimate form of it.
I was going to say something about how I recall calories and/or general nutrition being related. I can certainly see starvation -- or borderline starvation -- stunting intellectual development later in life.
Yeah. People who assume that conveniently forget the long-ass era of very smart people coming up with very smart things every couple of decades, and how they build on the smart things of older smart people. We're benefiting from the result of these centuries of smart people.
There were probably hundreds of people that would gotten the Nobel prize in mathematics had they lived today, that came up with intelligent things in their shitty mudhole in the 8th century and took their innovation to the grave.
It's about trying to find a reason, any reason, why the attack on the embassy was either Obama's or Clinton's fault.
That there isn't actually any such reason doesn't stop Boehner, et. al., from asking the same questions over and over again based on the LBJ Pig Fucker principle.
I heard (it might've been from you) a short story about a guy who went back in time to Rome's era with a handgun, thinking he'd be able to convince them he was magical.
Turns out "that guy has a funny looking thing that blows holes in things" is pretty obviously not magic.
such a weird episode in the context of modern times, they have to call Kramer on a land line and then, AND THEN, they have to give him directions! And if he forgets the directions he's fucked. And that's basically what happens. He gets lost and it takes him forever to find the place.
THE NINETIES.
Oh men.
Not asking for directions.
I wonder what other stereotypes are gonna just be flat out "what the fuck?" as technology marches on.
Al Gore likes to drive it around just so he can fill the tank over and over with premium gasoline
Yeah, in the multiple times I've heard about this I've never understood how one could invest in a(n) political group/organization and not have to disclose that you have a vested interest in such.
Current Playthroughs: Neverwinter Closed Beta|Let's Build! Sim City
Not really. There was an incident of that five or so years back in Australia (ad campaign used a photo of a girl without permission or compensation), and there's a hard push by Big Tech to reinstate registration requirements for copyright protection.
The problem is that a lot of people don't see how copyright protects them. When they do, they tend to be supportive of it, like in the Instagram license fiasco.
I assume that as with basically all of politics that it's a disingenuous attempt to grab the headlines with hearings every couple of weeks/months with manufactured outrage and go-nowhere evidence and testimony that the other arms of the American right will spin to suit their needs. It doesn't actually have to have legal consequences -- it just needs to make people see headlines that read, "SENIOR OBAMA OFFICIALS IN FRONT OF HEARING ON BENGHAZI."
First world politics is such a weird, cynical meta game to get reelected.
i thought army of darkness was a documentary
That's a particular area of his research... the idea that "clovis" wasn't a tribe that took over the Americas, but an idea for how to produce tools that spread, remarkably fast, throughout the continent.
Clovis points = first viral idea? Maybe.
It's a rather cumbersome sentence construction.
Or the front.
What with the swarming. Or an arrow.
Either way you're not gonna be their god-king after murdering a soldier.
Pretty much that, yeah.