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org/u/e6u (article from Atlantic Monthly) 12/5 My WinXP laptop sometimes doesn't come out of hibernate. doing the resume thing, but the login screen never shows up. I'm guessing maybe if I waited long enough, it would eventually come up, but I've been too lazy to wait for hours (I've tried 30-60 minutes).
org/u/e6p "A jury next year will decide how much the county must pay for the land, unless the owners agree on a sale price. "Gidaro's group bought the property last year for $60 million from National Gas and Energy Transmission, a successor to PG&E Properties. The Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians, which operates the Cache Creek Casino Resort in Yolo County, has said it would finance the purchase of the ranch."
read the entries in order, but because they're posted recent-first, I have to scroll down to the end, then read top-to-bottom, then scroll up one post and read down again. Is there any way to reformat them to be the latest at the bottom?
was maybe one half decent line in it but otherwise it was sophomoric trash. The followup comments on the first page or two were all one liners going off about how brilliant it is but it just isn't. I'm happy to leave it at "your sense of humor is remarkably different than mine". Ask yourself this: if the same piece were written with different names and reverse political point of view would it still be "fucking hilarious" for you or the other commenters?
The joke works *because* someone as nonsensically rabidly anti-liberal as Ann Coulter could only be this driven if she had as huge a well of repressed feelings as this satire purports. No, it wouldn't work if it were Michael Moore and some Young Republican because we all know lefties are perverts anyway (that, and the imagery would be terribly unsettling). Yes, the website and its title are puerile, but yes, it's funny.
if you spend more than 10 seconds a year thinking about Ann Coulter and you share a sense of humor with the typical 16 year old. Anyway, Ann, Moore, and all the rest are super rabid because it makes them money. If you seriously believe they're that rabid in real life in private, I've got a bridge for you.
That's not part of their recent history except a bit of inter-European movement. most European countries having large-ish immigrant populations, it is actually pretty difficult in a lot of places to assimilate, even for second-generation kids. The "barriers" aren't really conscious, but there have been a lot of studies recently about job discrimination against people with non-European names. This in no way excuses the honor killings and shit like that, but there was a good E'ist letter to the editor recently by a guy who'd taught in Italy--a group of ethnic Japanese students was referred to only as "the Japanese" by other students, even though they'd all been born in Italy. True or not, this is pretty typical and explains some of the failure to integrate. Given that, there's also a _lot_ of un- willingness on the part of a lot of Balkan and Arab/Muslim immigrants to integrate.
Not that Japan would even let large colonies of immigrants set up their own cultural islands the way immigrants do in Europe. Other countries don't work the way America does and that's ok. Japanese in Italy will always stand out until so many immigrants eventually change the face of Europe (already happening). I don't think they should be forced to be perfectly accepting of immigrants. I guess it comes down to the idea of people having a homeland attached to their ethnicity. This traditional notion is simply incompatible with "integration". I would not expect to feel like a native Chinese if I moved to some random Chinese town, or if I was one of 3 white kids in a Chinese school, and first generation kids aren't gonna suddenly be Chinese either when they don't have Chinese parents and cultural tradition. I think immigrating is a choice and some of the negative aspects are to be expected. Obviously they should be protected law and tolerance should be taught. You can't force it though without trampling somewhat on the native people's lives. the immigrants would only become "acculturized" after several generations; but natives don't really want to deal with non-acculturized immigrants.
I figure I'll actually field this question: I actually intentionally did not keep old-soda's keys. I'll post the new keys on the website when I am a bit more conscious.
to the point of become unbearably slow before the hardware upgrade. out of curiousity, what went wrong with the old Soda again \_ Run soda inside a VM, and then VMOtion it to the other machine 12:26 lexluthor2 annCoulter?
that there hasn't been a good Star Trek show since DS9 ended. I'm also struggling w/ the fact that 1st Contact was the last watchable Star Trek movie. I desperately need an infusion of new Star Trek content (Enterprise failed spectacularly in this regard b/c even SeaQuest was more watchable).
and I thought it was a given that national restrictions on who links to what online are silly, "make a buck on it" is not a bad thing, but for some reason it has a negative connotation--not making a buck == no google, who judges what "no one should need to see"? lies is, c) germany has banned nazi stuff, are you opposed to that? unrelated is google's answer to a faq on image and link hosting for people who want an image pulled down: they duck the issue of removing it from their index and punt it to the user to go ask the webmaster to remove it when in many cases the webmaster has posted something maliciously or just doesn't care what their users post and isn't subject to the reach of the law. there were search engines before, there will be search engines after. they're just one search engine of many that all return roughly the same quality of results. In their position I wouldn't even have posted the disclaimer, although I can understand why they saw it as a prudent thing to do.
is unwilling to provide a means to people to have potentially damaging and false information removed. I'm firmly in favor of that but why draw the line there? I don't see why Germany's ban on Nazi stuff is ok as a 'special case'. As if by out lawing references to the Nazis they will magically make the past go away. Anyway, once you draw a line there's no difference where yo draw it. You don't get to claim you're a big pro-information freedom person when you've made an arbitrary decision that there really is some information that shouldn't be seen.
Women/ families should be not allowed to sneak across the border or go on a shopping trip in San Diego, give birth, and subsequently become a lifetime ward of the US Fed. But I guess strict construction is only useful when convenient.
the same to all observers, did he ever consider that it contradicted with Newton's laws? I read some Einstein biography and it sounded like Einstein was the first to consider the contradiction.
lieberman goes over there and thinks everything is rosy. murtha goes over there and thinks iraq is about to dissolve into civil war. i read the paper today and see more news of suicide bombings. i think of how much the iraqi people must be in on it for insurgents to attack our troops with such impunity. and let me amend this, I cannot think of any reasonable way for america to 'win'. I think gwbush wants to create a democratic magic land where the kurds, sunnis and shiites all live together in harmony and provide the US with cheap oil for the next 50 years. he must not have noticed the sunnis and shiites hate each other over an event that happened almost 2000 years ago, they're not going to start being nice to each other after we throw several cluster bombs at them. we fucked up, the sooner we're out of iraq, the sooner it can split into three countries. It's a shame those who try to voice the evidence they see of things getting beter are being silenced. If I am a neo-nazi I should get equal time to "debate" my side of the issue? and 2) you have the right to say what you want, but you don't have the right to force others to listen. In this case, we're talking about national issues of foreign policy as debated by federal level elected officials and it is absolutely neces...
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