Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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This actually nailed me at work once, dialled 9 for an outside line, then fat fingered 1 for a long distance call, and instantly had the 911 operator.
But it is a very good idea regardless. A standard should be well standardized across the board, otherwise what's the point? It's been the battle drum for decades now, dial 9-1-1 in case of an emergency. Why allow it to be tailored to individual systems?
GasBandit
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So make it a manufacturing requirement of new systems, so that it gets phased in naturally over time. To require existing systems that can't accomodate the change be replaced would be an unreasonable burden, and the requirements for a waiver are asinine.
Internet comments are a pretty poor metric to dehumanize people with. You can find hateful comments from people all across the political spectrum on the internet.
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-st...trasting_portraits_of_r.html#incart_big-photo
The trial for those militia nutjobs in Oregon started yesterday. Many of them are pleading guilty. I hope the ones representing themselves get put away for quite a while. Those opiate-addicted, unemployed, shell-shocked idiots thought they could hide behind their pocket-sized Constitutions.
I used to play Airsoft with assholes like them. I just saw Airsoft as a fun outdoor activity, but they saw it as practice for WHEN the government would suddenly turn into the Fourth Reich.
And regarding horrible comments seen on the Interwebs, I've got this video to show.
The trial for those militia nutjobs in Oregon started yesterday. Many of them are pleading guilty. I hope the ones representing themselves get put away for quite a while. Those opiate-addicted, unemployed, shell-shocked idiots thought they could hide behind their pocket-sized Constitutions.
I used to play Airsoft with assholes like them. I just saw Airsoft as a fun outdoor activity, but they saw it as practice for WHEN the government would suddenly turn into the Fourth Reich.
And regarding horrible comments seen on the Interwebs, I've got this video to show.
I may just have to break my sacred vow to never, ever, for the love of God, read a youtube comment, because I'm curious about the comments for that video.
GasBandit
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Surprising nobody, least of all Johnson, the 2 party system has decided Gary Johnson and Jill Stein do not meet the poll threshold to take part in the presidential debate.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/johnson-stein-fail-first-presidential-debate-228301
"I would say I am surprised that the CPD has chosen to exclude me from the first debate, but I’m not," the statement read. "The only time a third candidate has been allowed on the stage was 1992, when both parties wanted him on the stage for their own purposes. It should be noted that, when [Ross] Perot was allowed on the stage, polls showed his support to be in single digits, below where Johnson/Weld are currently polling."
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/johnson-stein-fail-first-presidential-debate-228301
"I would say I am surprised that the CPD has chosen to exclude me from the first debate, but I’m not," the statement read. "The only time a third candidate has been allowed on the stage was 1992, when both parties wanted him on the stage for their own purposes. It should be noted that, when [Ross] Perot was allowed on the stage, polls showed his support to be in single digits, below where Johnson/Weld are currently polling."
Considering that Perot polled higher than Clinton for the beginning of the '92 race (he was in the 30s) and polled higher than 15% for most of October, that statement is massively misleading. He only hit single digits at all because he quit the race in August and then announced in October that he changed his mind and wanted back in.
The idea that Johnson has anywhere near the support that Perot did is laughable.
I actually like the Green Party and even I think Jill Stein is a joke.
GasBandit
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They obviously were never going to win, the goal was to crack the armor of the 2 party system and start the ball rolling on getting alternatives heard.
I've always said since the beginning of this, "I'll just be happy if Johnson is included in the debates."
WELP
(Also, as others point out every single time, having them in the race, and in the debates, forces the big candidates to adopt some of the positions to court those that would otherwise be swayed).
Protests and riots in Mexico in the wake of Donald Trump's visit, as the public calls for President Nieto to step down.
Mexico's been due a revolution for awhile, but I don't see the point; they'll never have long lasting, positive change unless they start having the army take down the Cartels.
Mexico's been due a revolution for awhile, but I don't see the point; they'll never have long lasting, positive change unless they start having the army take down the Cartels.
That would mean having the snake eat itself.
The military is so corrupt that taking down the cartels means taking down their own employers.
I love how people dismiss the third parties as not being viable so they shouldn't bother to run and/or people shouldn't "waste" their vote on them. Because obviously the way to grow support for a third party is to not even try? So what the everloving fuck are third parties supposed to do to become viable? Please explain this to me, oh wise and all-knowing Democrats and Republicans, and use small words because obviously I'm just an idiot Libertarian.
Or are we only allowed to vote White Simms or Blue Simms?
Or are we only allowed to vote White Simms or Blue Simms?
Americans deserve being spit-roasted between Trump/Hilary.
Leave President Camacho out of this.
I can't speak to the Libertarians, but on the Green side, it would help if they spent a lot less money trying to get Jill Stein and her circle of friends elected and spent a lot more money focusing on multiple low-level positions, and used what positions they did win to try and support local initiatives in line with their politics, and actually crafted policy instead of protesting all the time with a list of demands (they're not actually the same thing).
Like @AshburnerX, I'm politically way more Green than Dem, but the active Greens I've met are either gone from view when there isn't a Presidential election on, or they're purity-testing morons who would argue and fight about labels and burn the whole movement down if they get one penny less than what they ask for.
Exactly, on both accounts.
If being a terrible option makes a candidate non-viable, aren't Republicans and Democrats wasting their votes this year, too? 
Libertarians are crafting policy and there are usually at least a few Libertarian candidates at the local level on my ballot every election. Yet I still keep getting told my vote is "wasted" for supporting Libertarian candidates. So again, what are third parties supposed to be doing to become viable? Because crafting policy and having local candidates is apparently still not good enough for my vote to be considered non-wasted.
Libertarians are crafting policy and there are usually at least a few Libertarian candidates at the local level on my ballot every election. Yet I still keep getting told my vote is "wasted" for supporting Libertarian candidates. So again, what are third parties supposed to be doing to become viable? Because crafting policy and having local candidates is apparently still not good enough for my vote to be considered non-wasted.
gary johnson and every libertarian should be jerking each other off with a smile over missing the debates, the criteria was set up by a fully private organization based on private polls, and all funded by rich people and corporations 
if the free market wanted Johnson to debate, it would have gotten him up there!
3rd parties in national elections are a distraction if they can't field a credible candidate, they can do good work and help people and change the world etc by getting on city councils, state houses, mayors, commissioners, etc.
if the free market wanted Johnson to debate, it would have gotten him up there!3rd parties in national elections are a distraction if they can't field a credible candidate, they can do good work and help people and change the world etc by getting on city councils, state houses, mayors, commissioners, etc.
Run for one of the other two? It's working for Trump.If being a terrible option makes a candidate non-viable, aren't Republicans and Democrats wasting their votes this year, too?
Libertarians are crafting policy and there are usually at least a few Libertarian candidates at the local level on my ballot every election. Yet I still keep getting told my vote is "wasted" for supporting Libertarian candidates. So again, what are third parties supposed to be doing to become viable? Because crafting policy and having local candidates is apparently still not good enough for my vote to be considered non-wasted.
And Bernie...
Bayer buys Monsanto in $66 billion dollar deal.
Holy fuck... if there was EVER a time for an Anti-Trust block. Too bad our government is too "in" with the corporations to actually do it's job.
Holy fuck... if there was EVER a time for an Anti-Trust block. Too bad our government is too "in" with the corporations to actually do it's job.
GasBandit
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After a shootout with police, Ahmad Khan Rahami has been taken into custody as suspect behind the NY/NJ bombings.
"Authorities said the blasts were looking increasingly like an act of terrorism with a foreign connection."
"Authorities said the blasts were looking increasingly like an act of terrorism with a foreign connection."
So basically, Bayer just bought Round-Up, since Monsanto makes that, too.
I wonder how this will affect any of the IP theft cases going on due to cross-pollination.
--Patrick
Dave
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If this is true it was someone with a lot of money teaching a moron how to set off a bomb. They found him initially in the vestibule of a bar within walking distance of his house (or apartment?). So he's not exactly a criminal mastermind. So some foreign terrorist organization finds an absolute idiot and says, "Do this. It'll be fine."
The price went up a mere 1% after the news. The investors are all expecting the anti-trust cockblock, but are too invested to drop the stock.