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I don't think that we are near the "die off" date. Isn't that by 2030?
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Her name for it is highly accurate.
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Solkanar512 posted:Which other communities are disenfranchised by all mail ballots (that aren't by the standard system), and how are mail in ballots disenfranchising in a way that having to be at a specific polling place is not? I've met multiple religious types who brag that their vote counts twice as much because their proper Christian wife votes as she is told to. In a voting booth she can vote however she wants and then tell her husband she voted his way to keep the peace. With mail in ballots he can directly intimidate her. I love mail in ballots personally. So convenient. But I worry that they disenfranchise women trapped in hyper religious communities.
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My final vote tally for dictator of Amesbury district 2 city council: 1 vote District 5 city council: 12 votes School committee: 3 votes Planning board 4 year: 4 votes Planning board 2 year: 21 votes (2nd place) Library trustee 4 year: 3 votes Housing authority: 32 votes (win)
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Joementum posted:Delegates to the convention used to be selected by the state party chairs, who could then speak for their entire delegation, allowing them to broker deals with the candidates for support. Sometimes they even represented multiple delegations. Strom Thurmond guaranteed Nixon the Southern state delegations at the '68 convention in exchange for a promise that the Nixon administration wouldn't pursue busing and selection of the VP. He gave Nixon a list of acceptable VPs and that's how Agnew happened. I was amazed when I learned that Humphrey didn't even run in any primaries but still ended up with the nomination. I knew the old system was very cigars-in-back-rooms but wow that's corrupt as hell.
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DemeaninDemon posted:He is now though. Just because the kid is holy now does't mean he's going to heaven.
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I still can't believe they're letting Trump host SNL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehIiDTDzENY I hope he walks off, or one of the cast members walks off, or at the very least Sia pulls a Sinead O'Connor.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Yeah, parts of North Minneapolis are worse than Mississippi in that regard, but it's a problem that we've recognized and are working on. Numbers from the reservations might be doing more to drag averages down because they were really bad last I looked. Those numbers aren't totally the state's fault, though, due to the arrangements with the federal government that are involved, but still: 
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JT Jag posted:Crosspost from the Football Funhouse: The Pentagon paid sports teams millions for patriotic events. There was a pretty great book written about this subject in 2012 called Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. I don't know how prophetic it was because it was written in 2012 about the Pentagon paying for a mega-tour of hero marines during the Super Bowl halftime show. They're probably making it into a movie with Vin Disel as one of the main characters. I thought it was one of the better books about the Iraq war I've read. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk AmericanBarbarian fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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The government and technology:quote:Repeated crashes of a version of the Microsoft Outlook program in recent months stymied the State Department's ability to respond to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit demanding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's schedules, according to a new court filing. A FOIA request, already delayed for five years, is still unable to be fulfilled because of the impenetrable might that is Microsoft Outlook errors.
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Pillowpants posted:My final vote tally for dictator of Amesbury May your reign be long and merciless 
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Edit: the database is up then it's down then it's up then it's down...
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:The government and technology: To be fair, PST files are comically bad at performing the way people abuse them.
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Rand is apparently making a campaign stop at my college. He's so dead in the water at this point it's not really worth going for the possibility of making fun of him.
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FAUXTON posted:When they start apportioning electoral votes by district results rather than state results. Take Pennsylvania for instance. It's basically one decent city, one "actually West Virginia but close enough" city, and a bunch of inbred fucks who talk like boomhauer and say yinz in between the cities. Population-wise the majority of voters in the state are going to be in those cities, and a huge majority of those city-dwellers are not down with the GOP. Moreso in the decent city than the 'burgh, but the stats legislature can draw electoral districts so that they concentrate as much of the civilized vote into as few districts as possible, while slathering the mumbling chickenfucker hill people vote as thinly as possible across all districts while still maintaining majorities. Pittsburgh has one of the highest literacy rates in the country, you weirdly furious douchebag e: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States#Central_Connecticut_State_University
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Joementum posted:Correct. Brady won the assignment today, making it seven of them chairing committees total.
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TPP full-text, it seems: http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Treaties-and-International-Law/01-Treaties-for-which-NZ-is-Depositary/0-Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Text.php It's worse than we thought: quote:All creative digital works (including, but not limited to digitial images, video, and Internet memes) are now subject to full copyright restriction equal to the duration of the original author's life plus 75 years.
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Accretionist posted:TPP full-text, it seems: http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Treaties-and-International-Law/01-Treaties-for-which-NZ-is-Depositary/0-Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Text.php Accretionist posted:It's worse than we thought:
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Judge I think you'll find proof, enclosed here, that I emailed a photo of my cat to my mother in the 90s. Therefore, I deserve residuals off all cat-related macros, in perpetuity.
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Remember that South Park episode that was about the writer's strike but was framed as being about Canada? That's all I can think of regarding this, that it's a bunch of old people thinking "hey, what about that internet money, we want some of that"
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The good news is that now KC Green can go after people for abuse of Dick Butt and Matt Furie can crack down on all that lovely Rare Pepe stuff.
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KiteAuraan posted:The good news is that now KC Green can go after people for abuse of Dick Butt and Matt Furie can crack down on all that lovely Rare Pepe stuff. also loss.jpg 
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well i'm hosed, if memes are now illegal edit: is goatman now copyrighted? what about 2girls1cup, since sa provided funding for it.
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Kitfox88 posted:well i'm hosed, if memes are now illegal Not unless TPP is also retroactive.
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Really we just need to replace the word meme. Go back to the greek root imo. Everyone who wants to say 'meme' instead should painstakingly type out μίμημα, unless they hate their freedom. Chelb fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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Unless I'm mistaken, that's not a change to US copyright law, it just extends our law to the Pacific rim countries.
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Memes were already copyrighted. It's just a major pain in the rear end to prove ownership. I know the dude who drew that stupid trollface has enforced his copyright.
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Joementum posted:Unless I'm mistaken, that's not a change to US copyright law, it just extends our law to the Pacific rim countries. Yeah, it's been said here before but the TPP is less "gently caress over internet people in America" and more "Try to loving get China to stop wantonly stealing everyone's poo poo". Pillowpants posted:My final vote tally for dictator of Amesbury I need to figure out what the local positions for my area are. This sounds like fun. Sadly where I live is unincorporated and doesn't even seem to have a city website. I think it's just covered under the county which means 0% chance of a Lulz campaign.
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Joementum posted:Unless I'm mistaken, that's not a change to US copyright law, it just extends our law to the Pacific rim countries. So, in a very real way, all their memes are belong to us?
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So apparently Ben Carson's autobiography might have straight up fabrications in it: http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/05/politics/ben-carson-2016-childhood-violence/index.html tl;dr: In his book he admits to a variety of violent acts at school, but his classmates say that they have no memory of any of these things happening and further say that it's difficult to believe they could have happened even hypothetically.
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why does ben carson lie about things that make him look even worse than he is?
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So basically, Carson was one of those kids with violent fantasies that convinced himself he actually did them?
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Riptor posted:why does ben carson lie about things that make him look even worse than he is? The worse he was the better the redemption story.
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William Shearon is the new Mayor of Branenton Beach, FL, having drawn the Ace of Clubs and beating incumbent Mayor Jack Clarke who drew the Ten of Clubs. The election was decided in this manner after a recount confirmed a 195-195 vote tie.
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Joementum posted:William Shearon is the new Mayor of Branenton Beach, FL, having drawn the Ace of Clubs and beating incumbent Mayor Jack Clarke who drew the Ten of Clubs. That's awesome.
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Joementum posted:William Shearon is the new Mayor of Branenton Beach, FL, having drawn the Ace of Clubs and beating incumbent Mayor Jack Clarke who drew the Ten of Clubs. That video was so anticlimactic.
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So get this. In the US, the constitution has a section reading, "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." This is the sentence on which copyright and patent law are based. Copyright in the US lasts for seventy-five years after the creator is dead. In theory, the fruits of someone's labor could be locked away from public use for over a century and a half. If it were retroactively applied, then works written in the mid-1800s would just now be entering public domain, assuming the author created the work early-ish in their life and died at an old age. Suppose you write a massively popular work. Not only are you financially successful due to the work you produced (probably a good thing), but so will your children and your children's children, and your children's children's children. This results in crazy garbage poo poo like MLK's I Have a Dream speech being locked away from our culture and a frequent topic of costly lawsuits, all to enrich the rightsholders of MLK's speech, none of whom had anything to do with creating the speech in the first place. Copyright in the US is robbing our culture of important historical works and useful derivative works, and the fact that we're trying to inflict that insanity on the rest of the world is criminal. gently caress copyright maximalists.
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The goon that came up with Slenderman needs to get his lawyers going.
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Fist pump.Riptor posted:why does ben carson lie about things that make him look even worse than he is? SLOSifl fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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