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May 17, 2014 04:44
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enjoy your timeout
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May 17, 2014 04:50
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Isn't that a after-action or whatever I don't know how these things work
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May 17, 2014 04:52
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Snowdens Secret posted:Isn't that a after-action or whatever me either they keep changing the rules its kinda weird
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May 17, 2014 04:55
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Snowdens Secret posted:Isn't that a after-action or whatever Second gunman gets probated for being late to the punch
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May 17, 2014 04:58
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You can only be a second gunman if the first post of the new page ISN'T a sniper image. Otherwise you just get probated. Also, 39th post is safe if they post a spotter.
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May 17, 2014 05:19
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Your sniper gently caress gently caress games are getting us off target, here's what matters about this FCC poo poo: will it mean that I can download videos from Estonian Lesbian Amateur Horse Jerkers faster?
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May 17, 2014 08:32
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Comcast will tell you that it's downloading faster but it'll really be the same speed that it is now. You'll also be paying more.
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May 17, 2014 08:47
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I don't really have a great way of explaining this but the 'charge more for Netflix' thing is a business model from 10+ years ago and Comcast's silliness is going to run up against fiber and other new stuff on the landline side and on the other side from people increasingly consuming 'net media over mobile. So really in this context you should be worried a lot more about whoever's trying to buy T-Mobile, market penetration of the Wal-Mart phones etc etc. Comcast's really looking right now like the guys that wanted to put extra anti-copying fees on cassette tapes when everyone was buying CDs and MP3 sharing was just taking off; their cable business plan goes from bad to fuuuucked in the fairly near term and Netflix fees won't save them. Also lol at 'regulating like a utility', not only are our utilities an embarrassing travesty for a first-world country but these industries are already regulated out the wazoo and that accomplishes its primary purpose, which is keeping out competitors and maintaining regional monopolies. There's a crazy amount of money in a variety of redundant state and federal programs to cover psydude's fear that poors and rurals won't have internet; you would be shocked to learn they tend to be mismanaged, cronyist and ineffective, almost as if it's on purpose. I mean come the gently caress on it's not nearly as hard to give net access as people think. Someone should do an effortpost on this VA meltdown thing.
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May 17, 2014 12:40
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Snowdens Secret posted:I don't really have a great way of explaining this but the 'charge more for Netflix' thing is a business model from 10+ years ago and Comcast's silliness is going to run up against fiber and other new stuff on the landline side and on the other side from people increasingly consuming 'net media over mobile. So really in this context you should be worried a lot more about whoever's trying to buy T-Mobile, market penetration of the Wal-Mart phones etc etc. Comcast's really looking right now like the guys that wanted to put extra anti-copying fees on cassette tapes when everyone was buying CDs and MP3 sharing was just taking off; their cable business plan goes from bad to fuuuucked in the fairly near term and Netflix fees won't save them. This is less a government regulation/free market thing and more a corrupt monopoly coupled by legislation by lobbyists thing. Which is of course not going to happen. Net Neutrality however is one of those reasonably clear cut things where there is no real argument on Comcast&friends side apart from lobbying money. There are plenty of countries that manage to regulate and manage internet infrastructure competently on both the private and public side. As for internet access, there is a marked difference between 56k modems, starbucks wifi and fiber. Especially on the business side. It's similar to roads and railways, a single lane gravel road won't cut it if you want there to be industrial/commercial growth. What's happened at the VA? It can't have gotten worse than it already was, can it? I figured with drawing down the wars they'd have some breathing room to catch up at least a bit?
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May 17, 2014 13:03
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First link from google news, someone could do a much better writeup: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/16/politics/va-scandal/ quote:For six months, CNN has been reporting on delays in medical appointments suffered by veterans across the country and veterans who died or were seriously injured while waiting for appointments and care. The VA requires its hospitals to provide care to patients in a timely manner, typically within 14 to 30 days. They're currently in the deckchair-shuffling phase but this very well might cost Shinseki his job. It's not taking much digging to find more and more and more rot, although the chances of real reform are pretty low at this point. Note: Washington Times has really been the investigative drivers of this story (lol CNN, no planes there you dummies)
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May 17, 2014 13:16
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Snowdens Secret posted:First link from google news, someone could do a much better writeup: So the news is that the VA pretended like things were not as bad as everyone kinda knew they were?
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May 17, 2014 13:23
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A lot of small and medium sized municipalities have been investing in their own fiber infrastructures in recent years, whether it be by buying up existing dark-fiber lines, or building new ones. With population densities increasing in all types of cities due to the general trend of ubanization, I don't think it's too far-fetched to predict that we'll begin to see low-cost, public fiber popping up all around the country. This was actually one of the things Google was hoping to spark, and it looks like it's beginning to take traction.
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May 17, 2014 13:25
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Courthouse posted:So the news is that the VA pretended like things were not as bad as everyone kinda knew they were? I figured it'd be relevant and interesting, considering how many of us have to deal with the VA
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May 17, 2014 13:39
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Snowdens Secret posted:I figured it'd be relevant and interesting It is, I just thought you meant they'd had some new scandal. We already knew people weren't getting treatment in a timely manner. But I guess now that they have it on paper there might be some little change for the better? Who'd be in the wings if there are firings at the top?
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May 17, 2014 15:16
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The economic incentive to annex Crimea has finally come to light. iirc, the southwest of Ukraine has a significant russian-ethnic population  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/world/europe/in-taking-crimea-putin-gains-a-sea-of-fuel-reserves.html?hp quote:When Russia seized Crimea in March, it acquired not just the Crimean landmass but also a maritime zone more than three times its size with the rights to underwater resources potentially worth trillions of dollars.
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May 17, 2014 22:42
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Snowdens Secret posted:First link from google news, someone could do a much better writeup: Also their response to this was to force a some functionary to resign. Said individual was due to retire anyway in like 4 months.
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May 18, 2014 00:29
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...13fb_story.html good news dudes, the steelworkers have been deployed, Eastern Ukranian stability imminent!
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May 19, 2014 00:39
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Something, something, BENGAZI!quote:TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Forces apparently loyal to a renegade Libyan general said they suspended parliament Sunday after earlier leading a military assault against lawmakers, directly challenging the legitimacy of the country's weak central government three years after the overthrow of dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Libya's leadership condemned the attack and vowed to carry on.
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May 19, 2014 01:29
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Another mokhtar? 
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May 19, 2014 01:38
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Show of hands, who read that as Khalifa Hitler
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May 19, 2014 02:03
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I was extremely disappointed that he is in fact NOT a Hitler
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May 19, 2014 02:16
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maffew buildings posted:I was extremely disappointed that he is in fact NOT a Hitler There can be only one 
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May 19, 2014 02:59
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Snowdens Secret posted:Show of hands, who read that as Khalifa Hitler Oh yeah.
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May 19, 2014 03:26
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genderstomper58 posted:There can be only one Someone's never seen The Boys From Brazil
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May 19, 2014 03:34
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Snowdens Secret posted:Someone's never seen The Boys From Brazil sounds like a highly illegal gay porn
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May 19, 2014 03:38
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genderstomper58 posted:sounds like a highly illegal gay porn I'll send you the anime of it
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May 19, 2014 06:32
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Snowdens Secret posted:Show of hands, who read that as Khalifa Hitler It's his secret grandson from an illicit encounter with a Bedouin woman when he was down there inspecting Panzerkorps Afrika. Now hellbent on restoring the Caliphate and finishing what his grandfather started, thus ushering in the second coming. Just like your nana told you in all those chain-mails you never read. Courthouse fucked around with this message at 12:33 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 12:30
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Snowdens Secret posted:Someone's never seen The Boys From Brazil Only the finest Brazilian fart porn.
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May 19, 2014 13:20
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Courthouse posted:It's his secret grandson from an illicit encounter with a Bedouin woman when he was down there inspecting Panzerkorps Afrika. Now hellbent on restoring the Caliphate and finishing what his grandfather started, thus ushering in the second coming. Just like your nana told you in all those chain-mails you never read. Are you one of Tom Clancy's ghost writers?
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May 19, 2014 14:15
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genderstomper58 posted:There can be only one Hilterander.
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May 19, 2014 15:09
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MrYenko posted:Brazilian Fart Porn. Great username right there
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May 19, 2014 18:45
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Mr. Samuel Shitley posted:Great username right there why gently caress around with a vague concept when you could just use swap.avi?
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May 20, 2014 00:40
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http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/19/student-debt-presidents.html In a shocking development universities where kids end up with more debt for their Bachelor's in White Knighting and Trans-Racial Slam Poetry have executives paid higher. If only these children had had the foresight GIP had to go whack off in a shed in the desert or an abandoned for four minutes hull on a ship to get their education paid for. Or be born into a white, upper middle class family where they tell you to go to college and it's taken care of like I did  I did spend most of my time in college jacking off, though, as one shouldSurely the lovely job market, terrible student debt loads carried and terrible student debt policies won't have a negative impact on our nation in any way shape or form, will it? maffew buildings fucked around with this message at 02:51 on May 20, 2014 |
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May 20, 2014 02:48
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A gun and a single bullet are a hell of a lot cheaper than a BA in gender studies.
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May 20, 2014 02:56
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:A gun and a single bullet are a hell of a lot cheaper than a BA in gender studies.
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May 20, 2014 03:00
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A great deal of my time was spent imploring my younger college aged employees to: major in something that involves math or physical science because the long term prospects are so much better, hurry the gently caress up and finish college and don't spend all your time on a beach smoking pot or get a girl pregnant. Since this is Hawaii I have not held out high hopes for any of these things occurring. This is one place where telling kids "You should consider the military" is actually IMPROVING their chances at not being a gently caress up in life.
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May 20, 2014 03:29
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The cost of a fairly mundane college education has so far outpaced inflation that even the white upper middle class folks can't afford it without debt, especially if god forbid they have more than one kid. Most of the time you see college cost discussed, it's related to starting salaries of the grads. But (and I can't find the numbers at the moment) when you compare tuition to the parents' salary, it's gone in the last few decades from something like 2-3 months income to 2-3 years income to send a kid to get a 4-year degree. This gets way, way uglier when you start looking at the numbers differences between two- and one-parent households but that's also way beyond the scope
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My friend's kid wanted to apply to a $40k per semester school, and they wanted $45 just for the loving application.  Needless to say, she's going to community college in the fall.
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