no, li'l boy blue is actually technically right in this case:
*SUPPOSEDLY* (yes, i know) corporations were ONLY *GRANTED* a charter IF their proposed project (they were originally mostly 'project based', not in perpetuity) WAS TO BENEFIT THE PUBLIC...
*supposedly*, you were NOT to be granted a charter for the mere purpose of profit, there HAD TO be public benefit in order for 'us' to grant a corporation their charter...
of course, that has all been corrupted to the point where REAL PEOPLE have LESS RIGHTS than legal fictions we now call people...
welcome to bizarro world...
'smelly', as in what a shithead to cheat his servers, etc out of what is *SUPPOSED* to be their main source of payment...
i am ashamed that i did not know until a couple years back, that waitstaff do not even get paid MINIMUM fucking wage, (in most places, i think california is the one honorable exception); and in fact, places where they get a SHAMEFUL pittance per hour and HAVE to rely on tips for their income...
it really sucks, and has made me tip better and more consistently...
the whole thing sucks also, in that when i have -let's say- sub-optimal food (NOT a complainer, will eat marginal food rather than complain) the major way i can communicate that, is by leaving a crappy tip...
...*but* it (99% of the time) isn't the waitperson's fault the food was crappy, so i'm punishing them for the cooks and/or managements failure...
that's not right...
(oh, as an aside, that 99.99% of the time when a manager/whatever comes waltzing around the dining area asking patrons how their food is, they RARELY, ACTUALLY are interested in honest reactions, they pause only long enough to get the usual 'it's fine/good/great', and then they move on...)
*ahem*
now wait just one durn tootin' minute there, pardner...
aren't you the same jerkoff who insists that hiding a comment here in techdirtia is the same as egregious 'censorship' ? ? ?
doesn't it ever occur to you that wanting to have it both ways equals a massive failure in logic and consistency ? ? ?
(which is the bottom-line stance of the MAFIAA as well:
laws for thee but not for meeeeeeeee ! ! !)
the thing MANY of us dislike about you is your intellectual dishonesty and lack of consistent principles...
i have been esearching HD OTA stuff off and on, if you don't mind, what antenna did you end up going with ?
SWMBO is the main stumbling block in cutting the cord, but since espn and dish had some sort of falling out (whatever the fuck do i care what their bidness bullshit is ? i just want my stoopid fucking teevee), she is pissed off that our online espn streaming got squeezed out in some Big Media powerplay...
she wrote them (not that it does any good), but she is about ready to drop the whole enchilada because they have fucked with watching our Gators one too many times...
really, if they (or any big name university) would sell their own broadcasts (which they already do with all but football and basketball) DIRECTLY to us online, we would be happier than a pig in slop... i can't believe they wouldn't make a TON more money, rather than going through espn and the networks...
fuck the dinosaurs, small mammals for the win ! ! !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
well, i think you know better...
that *is* the superficial takeaway, but the REAL goal is to use such FUD to generate monies for their cronies, who then give them 'donations' (read: legalized bribes), who then pass laws to benefit their cronies, who then donate more money to the compliant kongresskritters, who pass more laws to benefit their cronies...
repeat as necessary...
the bullshit concern for the merikan people is mere window dressing, con artist patter to separate us from our money, honey...
kongresskritters are the masters of 3 card monty...
its the word of scumbag citizens against infallible donut eaters, guess which gets preferential treatment at EVERY turn in the (in)justice system ? ? ?
EVEN WITH video (see: king, rodney) it is nearly impossible to bring down the thin blue line of liars... they break the law with impunity and there are ZERO repercussions (99% of the time); we hoi polloi can't even follow the law assiduously, and we will STILL get jacked up by the goons of the state...
we have NO rights, only that we don't get beaten *today* at the sufferance of our jailers...
(yes, the cell *is* cozy, and we have teevee and cheezy doodles and sugar water; but it is still a cell, and we are still prisoners...)
how 'bout a toxicology report on the piggies ? ? ?
funny how a couple states which have tried to pass laws making welfare recipients subject to drug testing, had a very FEW brave (REAL) representatives who introduced legislation that lawmakers, judges, etc had to be subjected to drug testing too...
now, *THAT* was going too far...
*snort*
fuckers, i bet half of them are coked out of their skulls...
that would at least provide a believable explanation for half the fucked up shit they do...
testing for thee, but not for me ! ! !
hee hee hee
(who's watching the watchers ?
why the infallible watchers, of course !
works out great for them !)
uh huh...
that is the gist of it, but i know i have promulgated this quote in a slightly different form, which is paraphrased from kennedy's original quote...
to be clear, he was referring to -you know- *other* countries, not -you know- US... hee hee hee
the paraphrase i've used is along the lines of:
those who make peaceful dissent impossible, make violent revolution inevitable...
his actual quote wasn't quite as pithy (or pissy), but amounted to much the same...
having bought a new truck a couple years ago (USED ones a year or two older were selling for MORE than NEW ONES! wtf?) and getting the usual salesdroid bullshit, obfuscation, etc, i was already sick of that subhuman cohort of our population...
then, just recently when getting a new car for SWMBO, i purposefully -even though i am a fan of that brand- do NOT go to the same dealer, because we did *NOT* want to deal with that bullshit...
so, different dealer, same bullshit...
fuckers tried to stiff us on an option we had added on, told us lies about when it could be done, didn't follow up, didn't get the parts, didn't set the appointment, FINALLY had to threaten to return the car just within the 30 days, before the useless bastards got the parts and had a THIRD PARTY install it... (again, NOT what was represented to us when we bought it...)
fuckers, i'll say it again:
car salesdroids are only a method to keep con men, liars and sociopaths off the streets... the only thing they are good for, is stuffing sinkholes...
i know a lot of techdirtians are also slashdot watchers, so i'm sure you saw the report the other day that yet another representative goober has gone full bullgoose looney, and introduced a bill that would license/restrict 3D printers...
as night follows day, so do idiot lawmakers (am i being redundant?) chase bad laws with more bad laws...
Re: Re: Pharmacies outside US have no inherent right to US trade!
no, li'l boy blue is actually technically right in this case:
*SUPPOSEDLY* (yes, i know) corporations were ONLY *GRANTED* a charter IF their proposed project (they were originally mostly 'project based', not in perpetuity) WAS TO BENEFIT THE PUBLIC...
*supposedly*, you were NOT to be granted a charter for the mere purpose of profit, there HAD TO be public benefit in order for 'us' to grant a corporation their charter...
of course, that has all been corrupted to the point where REAL PEOPLE have LESS RIGHTS than legal fictions we now call people...
welcome to bizarro world...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
Re:
below average joe
/\
abject authoritarian
Re: Re: "use of BitTorrent to select and share movies is expressive"
urine idjit
Re: Enough to pay 5000 average citizens
well, 50k would be about twice the 'average' salary of most...
i'm pretty sure approx 50k is the average of two-income households...
so, even more worserer...
Re: Meme-tastic
RESSLING = wrassling ?
if that is the case, i agree...
Re: Re: Re: I'm a Kitchen-Nightmare addict ...
HA!
(said bitterly and skeptically)
Re: Re: Re: Re:
'smelly', as in what a shithead to cheat his servers, etc out of what is *SUPPOSED* to be their main source of payment...
i am ashamed that i did not know until a couple years back, that waitstaff do not even get paid MINIMUM fucking wage, (in most places, i think california is the one honorable exception); and in fact, places where they get a SHAMEFUL pittance per hour and HAVE to rely on tips for their income...
it really sucks, and has made me tip better and more consistently...
the whole thing sucks also, in that when i have -let's say- sub-optimal food (NOT a complainer, will eat marginal food rather than complain) the major way i can communicate that, is by leaving a crappy tip...
...*but* it (99% of the time) isn't the waitperson's fault the food was crappy, so i'm punishing them for the cooks and/or managements failure...
that's not right...
(oh, as an aside, that 99.99% of the time when a manager/whatever comes waltzing around the dining area asking patrons how their food is, they RARELY, ACTUALLY are interested in honest reactions, they pause only long enough to get the usual 'it's fine/good/great', and then they move on...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
Re: Re: Re:
good dog, man!
where *do* you get your pizza ? ? ?
IF they don't make their own dough, etc, what is the point ?
Re:
great comment, thanks...
Re: censorship
*ahem*
now wait just one durn tootin' minute there, pardner...
aren't you the same jerkoff who insists that hiding a comment here in techdirtia is the same as egregious 'censorship' ? ? ?
doesn't it ever occur to you that wanting to have it both ways equals a massive failure in logic and consistency ? ? ?
(which is the bottom-line stance of the MAFIAA as well:
laws for thee but not for meeeeeeeee ! ! !)
the thing MANY of us dislike about you is your intellectual dishonesty and lack of consistent principles...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
Re: to akari
i have been esearching HD OTA stuff off and on, if you don't mind, what antenna did you end up going with ?
SWMBO is the main stumbling block in cutting the cord, but since espn and dish had some sort of falling out (whatever the fuck do i care what their bidness bullshit is ? i just want my stoopid fucking teevee), she is pissed off that our online espn streaming got squeezed out in some Big Media powerplay...
she wrote them (not that it does any good), but she is about ready to drop the whole enchilada because they have fucked with watching our Gators one too many times...
really, if they (or any big name university) would sell their own broadcasts (which they already do with all but football and basketball) DIRECTLY to us online, we would be happier than a pig in slop... i can't believe they wouldn't make a TON more money, rather than going through espn and the networks...
fuck the dinosaurs, small mammals for the win ! ! !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
Re: The reality of governing
well, i think you know better...
that *is* the superficial takeaway, but the REAL goal is to use such FUD to generate monies for their cronies, who then give them 'donations' (read: legalized bribes), who then pass laws to benefit their cronies, who then donate more money to the compliant kongresskritters, who pass more laws to benefit their cronies...
repeat as necessary...
the bullshit concern for the merikan people is mere window dressing, con artist patter to separate us from our money, honey...
kongresskritters are the masters of 3 card monty...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
Re: Re:
so what ? ? ?
its the word of scumbag citizens against infallible donut eaters, guess which gets preferential treatment at EVERY turn in the (in)justice system ? ? ?
EVEN WITH video (see: king, rodney) it is nearly impossible to bring down the thin blue line of liars... they break the law with impunity and there are ZERO repercussions (99% of the time); we hoi polloi can't even follow the law assiduously, and we will STILL get jacked up by the goons of the state...
we have NO rights, only that we don't get beaten *today* at the sufferance of our jailers...
(yes, the cell *is* cozy, and we have teevee and cheezy doodles and sugar water; but it is still a cell, and we are still prisoners...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
Re:
my point exactly:
there are NO 'honest cops' anymore...
they ALL know of their 'buddies' who do dishonest, illegal, immoral, against policy shit ALL THE FUCKING TIME...
but not ONE OF THEM steps up and serpicos them, do they ? ? ?
nope, that makes them ALL dishonest, ALL OF THEM...
again, turn the tables: WE can't get away with that shit (ie pleading ignorance that some buddy did some crime), WHY SHOULD THEY ? ? ?
the answer is: because they have a badge and a gun and the full faith and credit of Empire backing them; usn's ? ? ?
we ain't got shit...
no one stands up for us, no one cares about us, no one even takes note of us when we are beat to death by the state's goons...
and here's the thing: it only makes it worse for the 1% when the top blows...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
Re:
EXACTLY, lucy...
cops with a baton, tazer, pepper spray, 9mm, shotgun, etc = officer friendly
citizen with a cardboard protest sign = armed terrorist
cop with a camera = NOT intimidating anyone, ever
citizen with a camera = armed terrorist
cop with a judicial system and thin blue line of liars backing them up = normal, not a police state at all
citizen minding their own bidness = armed terrorist
anyone seeing a pattern here ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
Re:
how 'bout a toxicology report on the piggies ? ? ?
funny how a couple states which have tried to pass laws making welfare recipients subject to drug testing, had a very FEW brave (REAL) representatives who introduced legislation that lawmakers, judges, etc had to be subjected to drug testing too...
now, *THAT* was going too far...
*snort*
fuckers, i bet half of them are coked out of their skulls...
that would at least provide a believable explanation for half the fucked up shit they do...
testing for thee, but not for me ! ! !
hee hee hee
(who's watching the watchers ?
why the infallible watchers, of course !
works out great for them !)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
Re:
uh huh...
that is the gist of it, but i know i have promulgated this quote in a slightly different form, which is paraphrased from kennedy's original quote...
to be clear, he was referring to -you know- *other* countries, not -you know- US... hee hee hee
the paraphrase i've used is along the lines of:
those who make peaceful dissent impossible, make violent revolution inevitable...
his actual quote wasn't quite as pithy (or pissy), but amounted to much the same...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
Re: Honestly...
having bought a new truck a couple years ago (USED ones a year or two older were selling for MORE than NEW ONES! wtf?) and getting the usual salesdroid bullshit, obfuscation, etc, i was already sick of that subhuman cohort of our population...
then, just recently when getting a new car for SWMBO, i purposefully -even though i am a fan of that brand- do NOT go to the same dealer, because we did *NOT* want to deal with that bullshit...
so, different dealer, same bullshit...
fuckers tried to stiff us on an option we had added on, told us lies about when it could be done, didn't follow up, didn't get the parts, didn't set the appointment, FINALLY had to threaten to return the car just within the 30 days, before the useless bastards got the parts and had a THIRD PARTY install it... (again, NOT what was represented to us when we bought it...)
fuckers, i'll say it again:
car salesdroids are only a method to keep con men, liars and sociopaths off the streets... the only thing they are good for, is stuffing sinkholes...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
file under: who could have predicted that...
i know a lot of techdirtians are also slashdot watchers, so i'm sure you saw the report the other day that yet another representative goober has gone full bullgoose looney, and introduced a bill that would license/restrict 3D printers...
as night follows day, so do idiot lawmakers (am i being redundant?) chase bad laws with more bad laws...
dog damn, i hates me some stoopid...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
oh please, Please, PLEASE...
...tell me he has slicked-back hair with a snidley whiplash mustache ! ! !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof