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zoux posted:I remember those, I guess I forgot they we connected to the WTC thing. Clinton's anti-terrorism efforts stopped the Millennium plot, which were a series of planned bombings in Jordan, LAX airport, and against the USS The Sullivans. Although The Sullivans was supposedly a fluke, since the boat carrying explosives in a proto-Cole style bombing sunk and detonated and no one knew until after the fact.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Rubio will walk out of the convention with it if he doesn't implode before then. I think he's their best option to challenge Hillary in the general, dunno if it will be him though. It just won't be Trump.
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Bush vs. Clinton has been considered the default position for several years now. It's part of why his failure to do anything noteworthy so far has been met with so much narrative confusion.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Who then? The establishment candidate, like last time.
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A Man and his dog posted:My buddy is mad that I don't think humans will go to Mars anytime soon... I'm pretty bummed that it looks like it won't happen til the 2040s. Does anyone know if Bernie is pro-NASA? THIS IS IMPORTANT.
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moller posted:Bush vs. Clinton has been considered the default position for several years now. It's part of why his failure to do anything noteworthy so far has been met with so much narrative confusion. It's also never made any sense because Bill Clinton's presidency was great and both of George Bush's presidencies were an unmitigated disasters, so for it to be even imagined by Republicans relied entirely on team politics and tribalism and people having zero memories of the past.
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Sep 23, 2015 04:24
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You guys see Colbert's interview with Cruz? He did a much better job than he did with Jeb. He actually got him to admit that he wouldn't support things that his hero Reagan did, which was great cause he spent several minutes building him up as the bestest president ever.
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The irony is palpable. Christie tells National Guard leader to slim down
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Is Rubio liked by the establishment? Because if so I don't see how he doesn't eventually replace Jeb, in both debates he seemed smarter, more charismatic, and more exciting. In the first debate he seemed to have nervous jitters but by the end of the second he definitely seemed like the best option (in terms of having an actual chance to win) on the stage.
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A Man With A Plan posted:The irony is palpable. Christie tells National Guard leader to slim down Fat gently caress forgets fatness, forwards friendly forewarning for foremost fort facilitator: Find fat-free food.
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Tender Bender posted:Is Rubio liked by the establishment? Because if so I don't see how he doesn't eventually replace Jeb, in both debates he seemed smarter, more charismatic, and more exciting. In the first debate he seemed to have nervous jitters but by the end of the second he definitely seemed like the best option (in terms of having an actual chance to win) on the stage. Rubio's never been one of the establishment's front runners, no, but after Walker imploded and Bush started his determined effort to not win the nomination Rubio seems to be emerging as the establishment's second choice for the moment. He brings some Hispanic points, is from Florida and might sway that state a bit, and as far as I know has stuck close to the establishment line.
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A Man and his dog posted:My buddy is mad that I don't think humans will go to Mars anytime soon... I hope that Mars One thing works out. Watching people die of exposure in the Martian landscape will make for riveting TV. FAUXTON posted:Fat gently caress forgets fatness, forwards friendly forewarning for foremost fort facilitator: Find fat-free food. Fantastic.
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You guys it's a wild night on the copyright train. Noted garbage organization run by garbage people PETA has sued on behalf of Naruto The Monkey so that he can own copyright to his famous selfies. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/peta-sues-for-copyright-on-behalf-of-selfie-taking-monkey Full doc here http://www.mediapeta.com/peta/PDF/Complaint.pdf quote:35. Naruto through the Next Friends is informed and believes, and thereon Professional Summary: This is a blatant cash/publicity grab, as PETA is planning to take control of all the royalties and use them "solely for the benefit of Naruto, his community of crested macaques, and preservation of their habitat." ("less necessary and appropriate expenses," of course). Previously, the photographer whose camera the selfie monkey used sued to claim that he had copyright, and got firmly benchslapped for his trouble. Nonhuman animals can't own copyright, and there is no possible benefit for them to do so. It would be straight up bonkers to even consider making such a legal precedent. 
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Sounds no less crazy as letting non-human persons own copyright.
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Trabisnikof posted:Sounds no less crazy as letting non-human persons own copyright. ORIGINAL OTHERKIN SELF PORTRAIT DO NOT STEAL
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Fried Chicken posted:How many seconds do you give him lasting as soon as Trump starts punching at him? He was the guy who wrote the immigration reform bill they hate so much, let Trump bring that out Do you really think any of the people who are angry at Rubio over immigration are likely to support Jeb!? Rubio has his flaws but at the very least he can get two sentences out of his mouth without saying anything mindblowingly idiotic from a political standpoint.
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FAUXTON posted:ORIGINAL OTHERKIN SELF PORTRAIT DO NOT STEAL I was thinking more about the non-human persons that run the world. So lizard people.
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Defenestration posted:You guys it's a wild night on the copyright train. Nobody tell PETA it's a female monkey  edit: PETA blog post quote:Our argument is simple: U.S. copyright law doesn’t prohibit an animal from owning a copyright, and since Naruto took the photo, he owns the copyright, as any human would. US copyright law quote:Works That Lack Human Authorship  I like how their blog goes into weird libertarian voodoo about how animals aren't ~truly free~ until they can own property in the human world, though. James Garfield fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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I can't believe someone is trying to use the Air Bud strategy seriously.
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Lote posted:I can't believe someone is trying to use the Air Bud strategy seriously. And then finding out that the rules do in fact say that a dog cannot play basketball.
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It is almost as if the activists' goals aren't to win the case but instead to generate a bunch of social media/old media chatter....
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Lote posted:I can't believe someone is trying to use the Air Bud strategy seriously.
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AmiYumi posted:I can't believe someone named her "Naruto". Fuckin' nerds. I know, right? She should totally be named Goku 
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FAUXTON posted:ORIGINAL OTHERKIN SELF PORTRAIT DO NOT STEAL Something like this happened irl. http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Eridani_Light_Horse_lawsuit Otherkin tried to claim co-owner of Battletech because he made a robot for them.
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Freakazoid_ posted:Something like this happened irl. quote:While he did not succeed in his bid to establish co-authorship in the property as a whole, it seems that in the end he got what he originally requested and then had to sue for --- simple recognition as a contributor to Battletech. Wonder how much legal fees were.
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zoux posted:How is that any different from 9/11? For the same reason FDR was never blamed for Pearl Harbor (at least in the mainstream)? zoux posted:So do you think that, and I know all the historical counterfactual twisting you'd have to do to make it fit, but that Obama would get a pass if he'd been president on 9/11? Absolutely. TROIKA CURES GREEK fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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Also you can now sing Happy Birthday commercially now.
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So the DHS intends to enforce Real ID-compliant documentation when flying in the US in 2016. For the majority of people this is no change, your driver's license or state ID card is compliant. If you live in New York, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Louisiana, and American Samoa though, your driver's license is not compliant and won't be accepted. Right-wing news sites are flipping out about OBAMA MAKING YOU CARRY DOCUMENTS LIKE NAZI GERMANY even though they've been trying to get this done since 2005.
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Luigi Thirty posted:So the DHS intends to enforce Real ID-compliant documentation when flying in the US in 2016. For the majority of people this is no change, your driver's license or state ID card is compliant. If you live in New York, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Louisiana, and American Samoa though, your driver's license is not compliant and won't be accepted. Right-wing news sites are flipping out about OBAMA MAKING YOU CARRY DOCUMENTS LIKE NAZI GERMANY even though they've been trying to get this done since 2005. What's the hold up with New York? With their population, I'd have figured they'd have wanted to already be in compliance like the rest of the states not mentioned above.
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Kalman posted:Reducing the required safety testing is a bad idea, and price controls are a fairly extreme response to the problem given that the existing generics regime tends to work quite well once a drug can be genericized. Would price controls be more or less extreme than throwing that guy in a wood chipper as an object lesson? Antti posted:Aside the H-1B there's a visa called L-1B that is used for "intracompany transfers of key personnel with specialized knowledge." They've simply widened the interpretation so that more employees can qualify for it instead of having to get a visa in the H-1B quota. That's hilariously underwhelming but thanks just the same! Luigi Thirty posted:So the DHS intends to enforce Real ID-compliant documentation when flying in the US in 2016. For the majority of people this is no change, your driver's license or state ID card is compliant. If you live in New York, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Louisiana, and American Samoa though, your driver's license is not compliant and won't be accepted. Right-wing news sites are flipping out about OBAMA MAKING YOU CARRY DOCUMENTS LIKE NAZI GERMANY even though they've been trying to get this done since 2005. Ugh, and I just got my license renewed and didn't opt for the enhanced version :\ Munkeymon fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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AegisP posted:What's the hold up with New York? With their population, I'd have figured they'd have wanted to already be in compliance like the rest of the states not mentioned above. Just pay $30 more and you're fine http://dmv.ny.gov/driver-license/about-federal-real-id Yeah that's an OK solution 
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:For the same reason FDR was never blamed for Pearl Harbor (at least in the mainstream)? This is a very good analogy, even with WW2 I don't think Americans ever expected that could happen. The problem was our WW2-era response to the whole thing (if our response to WW2 was "let's invade India! (or any other completely unrelated country").
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Fried Chicken posted:How many seconds do you give him lasting as soon as Trump starts punching at him? He was the guy who wrote the immigration reform bill they hate so much, let Trump bring that out Trump will detonate his suicide vest made out of money before he allows that man to walk out of the convention with the nomination. Two hundred million in negative ad buys, whatever it takes. Trump may not be the nominee, but Bush isn't going to be either.
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Kalman posted:And if it was a cap on cost chargeable by the pharmaceutical company, as opposed to cost to patient, they would be correct. Because it's proposed as a patient cost cap, they won't say it, and it wouldn't be true. PhRMA president and CEO John Castellani posted:Secretary Clinton’s proposal would turn back the clock on medical innovation and halt progress against the diseases that patients fear most. You were saying? Yeah, it's from a few pages back, but hey, as pointed out in the PPACA thread, Mother Jones has an article on it now. In short, never underestimate the ability of corporate lobbying groups to always, always spin an attack on them as a bad thing for America in their PR.
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Peztopiary posted:Trump will detonate his suicide vest made out of money before he allows that man to walk out of the convention with the nomination. Two hundred million in negative ad buys, whatever it takes. Trump may not be the nominee, but Bush isn't going to be either. Yeah, I am pretty solidly convinced at this point that a major motivation for Trump running was to stick it to Jeb Bush, personally and specifically. Which is one of the many reasons they were hilarious neighbors at the last debate.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I don't think he'd have been able to get away with pretty much anything that he wanted to like Bush did for 18 months afterwards, but I think he'd have benefited from the same level of support for at least a while. And to be honest the population was hurt, scared and confused. I entered college 5 days after 9-11, and I remember seeing a ton of little peacenotes tied to the trees around the student courtyard fountain. My initial reaction was some variant of 'loving hippies'. The media also did a piss poor job of trying to offer counterpoints to the War on Terror poo poo... It was pretty much Michael Moore talking poo poo about how it was avoidable, how the Saudis were getting a pass, and how Bush dropped the ball, but everyone was like 'lol bowling for columbine fatass hates Republicans!' What absolutely would have happened is we would have strengthened our foreign relations situation. One of the things lost in the narrative is just how utterly and reprehensibly Bush pissed away all the international goodwill from the attacks so he could be Slim Pickens.
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Fried Chicken posted:Bush has declared he would repeal net neutrality What incentives do companies have to upgrade the common infrastructure if whenever they upgrade it their competitors get the benefit as well? I'm a fan of net neutrality but this argument was raised to me by a lawyer who used to work with the FCC.
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Blowdryer posted:What incentives do companies have to upgrade the common infrastructure if whenever they upgrade it their competitors get the benefit as well? Not an expert on the subject, but when was the last time a car company voluntarily helped build a road or a bridge?
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Blowdryer posted:What incentives do companies have to upgrade the common infrastructure if whenever they upgrade it their competitors get the benefit as well? gently caress private companies, nationalize all utilities.
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