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Consider the US Government, with its separation of powers and system of checks and balances. Even if these falter, there is always the Constitution as a second line of defence. Lastly, there is the American people, from whom all this power arises. Potentially, the voting population could implement any kind of change imaginable, but it would be hard to get them to agree on exactly what. I believe the entire system is pretty robust, no?
Except we are currently in the situation where some in power are pushing and prodding to expand their power and quell those checks and balances (and in scarily succeeding in many cases). That's the problem with people in power - give them a little power, and they'll take more. Allow a little regulation for the good of the people, and someone somewhere will twist that to add more regulations in the name of doing good while simply just doing it to benefit themselves. The difference is in government, these people are guaranteed their positions, sometimes (in the case of non-elected entities like the EPA, FCC, etc.) without any term limits or potential to be ousted. I contend that the buying power of the public to control businesses is faster and less prone to fabrication than voting power.
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Consider the US Government, with its separation of powers and system of checks and balances. Even if these falter, there is always the Constitution as a second line of defence. Lastly, there is the American people, from whom all this power arises. Potentially, the voting population could implement any kind of change imaginable, but it would be hard to get them to agree on exactly what. I believe the entire system is pretty robust, no?
I think it's still the best system in the world, though we've been chipping away at it for a long time (there's a lot of ruin in a nation). Direct election of Senators was a truly terrible idea, though the current situation is still better than a unicameral system. The "Living Constitution" nonsense has probably done the most damage, however.
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I contend that the buying power of the public to control businesses is faster and less prone to fabrication than voting power.
Really? If I may ask then: do you own your own house or do you rent?
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Lastly, there is the American people, from whom all this power arises. Potentially, the voting population could implement any kind of change imaginable,
The people are actually the weakest link in this chain. I'm not a fan of Chomsky, but he's partially right about this. Where he's wrong is in excluding himself and other academics from doing the manufacturing (and I'm not sure that's an accident).
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Really? If I may ask then: do you own your own house or do you rent?
I'm not @DrakeSmith, but I agree with him. I "own" my house, with some help from the bank, of course. I have rented in the past.
Filed Under: Can't figure out where this is going
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Filed Under: Can't figure out where this is going
My money is on him having missed the point again.
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If you want, you can join in @boomzilla, just answer a few simple questions.
Filed under: not now however, 'coz I gotta get my shit together and go
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Filed under: not now however, 'coz I gotta get my shit together and go
Dammit! ENTERTAIN ME NOW
Filed Under: A little Friday morning @blakeyrat for you
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Really? If I may ask then: do you own your own house or do you rent?
I own a house and I rent (the house is up for sale). But, like @boomzilla, I too fail to see where this is going - any rental agreement (and many business contracts) often contain some sort of out clause. For example, I have a contract with Verizon wireless, but with Verizon's latest net neutrality actions/statements, and their insistence on locked down extra double secure phones, I'm paying to cancel to move to another company.
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I have a contract with Verizon wireless
Now there is an industry that strives for the title of “worst of the worst”, though they seem to be being beaten to that by the cable and land-line telephone companies. Not that there appears to be very much difference between the two; just different arms of the samehellspawnoctopus.
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No, the company that strives for 'worst of the worst', aside from whichever company employs @mikeTheLiar, must be Electronic Arts, who truly are the worst of the worst. They make the phone operators look good by comparison.
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No, the company that strives for 'worst of the worst', aside from whichever company employs @mikeTheLiar, must be Electronic Arts, who truly are the worst of the worst. They make the phone operators look good by comparison.
But Time Warner beat them in the first round of this year's competition. I was disappoint.
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It goes where I say including your ear, possibly :)
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Just re-railing this one for a minute... I give you: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/03/gamers_are_all_or_female_says_international_esports_federation/
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/03/gamers_are_all_or_female_says_international_esports_federation/
Instead, the outfit has abolished its male division in favour of an “Open for All” division and a “Female” division. “Open for All” contests are open to men and women. “Female” contests are only open to women.
Paging @ChiefJusticeRoberts....
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Let's read better articles! The Register gives me too many The Sun vibes.
First, there is the Finnish association, which had to follow the international federation:
Then people were rightfully angry, and the IeSF then fixed some of its ill-informed policies:
So while this idiotic women's-only division still exists, it's better than before, I suppose.
At the end of the day I just want more Scarlet vs Bomber.
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Yes, The Register is the tech industry's answer to The Sun, but at least it's vaguely amusing at times.
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In other news, due to the thread title shortening bug, this thread is now shortened to Misandry is...
and I imagine cutesy cartoons
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The Register is the tech industry's answer to The Sun, but at least it's vaguely amusing at times.
This remind of joke from "Yes Prime Minister" serial. have you seen that?
Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
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Filed under: wasn't hard, tee hee
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Apple are ornithophobes? The hell do they have against woodpeckers? Woodpeckers are cool!
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I suspect they would be just as offended by boobs and tits.
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Yes, because obviously Apple has a sexist, mysogynistic agenda which specifically requested that you could engrave the word "penis", but not "clit". I'm sure that by doing this, they want to oppress women who can't express their sexuality in the most obvious way - by an iPod engraving - thus rendering them sexually submissive and aquiescent to their whims.
And it's in no way a shitty dictionary.
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You mean... Apple isn't infallible? Say it isn't so!
Filed under: Considered infullible but I'm sure pedantic dickweedery would override Googling it so the joke would get lost
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Infullible, another of Holly's pronouncements.
@Maciejasjmj Careful, your sarcasm is showing. It isn't, say, related to the concept of political correctness where we dare not use certain words out of the fear of offending people.
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It isn't, say, related to the concept of political correctness where we dare not use certain words out of the fear of offending people.
Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.
Sure, the idea of having a dictionary of offensive words is stupid, but turning the flaw in the dictionary into a feminist agenda is stupidererer.
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Never let it be said there is a shortage of stupid.
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Still deciding if I should try and make Mandelbrot! into a thing
It doesn't sound offensive. More like a cry of a villain who had his plans foiled again.
Filed under: MAAAANDELBROOOOT!, KHAAAAAAAAN!
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It doesn't sound offensive. More like a cry of a villain who had his plans foiled again.
Filed under: MAAAANDELBROOOOT!, KHAAAAAAAAN!
How about "Schopenhauer!" ?
Filed under: [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schopenhauer]People nobody knows[/url], Fake German curses
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Filed under: People
nobody knowseverybody knows but thinks they're the only one in the world of sheepFTFY
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Getting the topic back on track a moment, something strange has happened.
The Church of England has voted to allow women to become bishops. 20 years or so, they allowed vicars, now they're allowing them to become bishops. Positive steps.
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The Church of England has voted to allow women to become bishops. 20 years or so, they allowed vicars, now they're allowing them to become bishops. Positive steps.
I think their real goal is to reduce the overall percentage of paedophiles. That seems to be pretty much a male-only practice.
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paedophiles. That seems to be pretty much a male-only practice.
Not really. See school teachers charged with sexually assaulting students - quite a few females there, although it is a little different in that a lot of those women deluded themselves into genuinely thinking it was okay because they were in love with the 12 year olds.
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That seems to be pretty much a male-only practice.
Have a black swan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8345756.stm
Another: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2583647/Female-paedophile-21-jailed-two-years-sex-eight-year-old-boy-50-times-starting-16.html
Again: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/female-paedophile-bluebird-tattooed-chest-2073661Deliberate non-oneboxing for obvious reasons, but you get the gist...
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I bet it's still over 90% males though.
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It's not. I stuck it into two female teachers in middle school, and 3 in high school. Only one male teacher even asked.
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It's not. I stuck it into two female teachers in middle school, and 3 in high school. Only one male teacher even asked.
Lo, we are trying to reinvent 4chan.
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Of course! doesn't /wtf/ redirect here? Thought it did
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made me wonder what's going on in /b/
It hasn't changed in years. Every post is a random meme and every meme is several years old now. Although there was a distinct lack over Over 9000 on the front page, but I'm sure that was just luck of the draw.I am assuming that is is full of the exact same people who were 40-something year olds pretending to be pimply nerds soliciting teenage girl pics and now 50-something year olds pretending to be pimply nerds.
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On the upside, 4-chan actually has infinite scrolling done right inside topics with a working scrollbar, paging on the topic list, and reply-quote by clicking a post# results in a post with ">>POST#". Hovering the >>POST# shows the post you were quoting (and it's not just a mess of broken html and/or failed markdown!!), clicking it takes you to the post.
Same if someone replied to you, it shows >>POST# and hoving shows the post, clicking takes you to the post.There's also a nifty option to "direct lookup posted image on google" (in case you forgot a meme or so you can verify an image is unique and not been posted a million times)
So essentially, 4-chan has every feature of Dicsourse, except better. Except likes. But no one really "likes" anything on 4-chan
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I knew I'd seen Discurse done better somewhere before.
I actually really like the model used on 4chan, it's just the content that's generally shit. There's no barriers to reading there at all.
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Oh hey, they have catalog view now too, which is infiniscroll over the topics page, except again with working scroll.
Though it helps that they kill topics that make it past page 15 in that regard.
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I don't think we are misogynists. Misanthropes definitely, but not misogynists.
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miscreants. we're miscreants.