Talk re Powerball upthread reminds me, I've got $10 in winnings to pick up. Whoo-hoo! It's like... a tax refund.
I play one set of numbers. I play it every time. I've played it for years and years. The Almighty Supreme Being knows what my numbers are, and, so far, on those occasions when I failed to buy a ticket, has blessed me that my Powerball numbers didn't come up.
"Electronic Arts Named Worst Company In America Again"
Been dead to me ever since they failed to port Deluxe Paint to Windows.
Lawn! Off!
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." -Thomas Jefferson
M'MAN! This is why that slave-canoodling old dead Euro guy is my lifelong hero. This is what I learned in grade school, back in the lighter ages, that spared me, only just barely, from the tyranny so many others fell for. This is the definition of The Spirit of '76.
"Has anything said here in this thread caused you to reevaluate your positions?" -GnuBreed at April 10, 2013 08:43 AM
I don't usually ROFLMAO, but this...!
Immediate thought: where do you think you are - this is the Internet! (Nev mind that AoSHQ is the rare exception, the thinking person's smart military blog.)
2nd reflection: Been in online groups since BBS & CompuServe days. Generally, The Great Debate is not about persuading one's debate opponent - as debaters tend to entrench rather than listen. But then you get a private email of gratitude from a lurker, and you realize, many are reading. Play to the lurkers & onlookers. 
"...we're conflating the Constitution by putting extra language in there that doesn't exist: In other words, UNRESTRICTED right to keep an bear arms. The word ain't there," -BurtTC
That's a fact. Instead, it clearly says, "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED."
"Here is Negri at the height of her career: http://tinyurl.com/cp5k8nq"
Hey, she's doing the Barry O middle-finger salute!
#bitcoin
In the late 70s We were living in Santa Fe selling pyramids (um... yeah) when we met Sami Sunsong, an itinerant monk of indeterminate order. Sami laid on us a copy of a revelation ... I still have it in my "filing system" somewhere ... that came through a Ouija board or magic 8-ball or something. Sami thought it was Important that we see it.
A big part of this "revelation" was escaping currency tyranny through alternative digital money. Key to the system was that it had to grow so fast and quietly that. before Big Money realized the threat, it would be too big to stop.
At the time, I was still several months away from purchasing my first home computer, had only a rudimentary knowledge of programming and networking and cyber-security, but I thought I could see great potential in the idea, but thought I could several weak points.
One weak point, it seemed to me, was,
"Like all other popular forms of on-line hedging and gambling systems, clever abusers of the system will extract real-world value from what starts out as theoretical on-line credits, and the inevitable result will be law enforcement action." -Blacksheep at April 10, 2013 07:10 AM
Another weak point I imagined was
"That assumption is that bankers have ignored BTC up to this point and have not infiltrated the network as agent provocateurs that are posing as honest people that support the BTC model. If bankers have already infiltrated the BTC network, then BTCs have counterparty risk just like fiat currency because bankers can now defraud people. In addition, if assessing the above statement, 'if a greedy attacker is able to assemble more CPU power than all the honest nodes,' who is greedier and has more resources than bankers?"
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-09/bitcoins-or-gold-part-i
I dont think Bitcoin is as good in principle as the loose Ouija ideas from 1978, but I see it has similar, obviously-predictable problems. Especially, no matter what form economy takes, the simplest bartered exchange, tyrants will try to tax it or take it over.
I've been watching humans, and two things I don't understand.
Humans make lovely, cool, easy-refill porcelain water dishes, and then poop in them.
They so often seem to choose the bottom dogs to lead their packs.
These problems may be related.
"Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul II gone.
Pigs like Castro and Mandela still live.
There is no God." -Mary Poppins'
No, you see, that's the proof
A) there is a God. and
B) we're in Hell.
"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." What would Maggie T say? (WWMTS)
The war betw light and dark has been going on... for a while. Foundations of the earth out of kilter and all that. Inside the battle it appears shadowy, but we must keep sight of the truth that the light wins ultimately because light is real while darkness is light blocked.
We have our inspirations, heroes in the war, who show what just a few can do.
Headline thread, I mentioned the fall of the USSR. Very next comment was RIP Thatcher. Yeah; and I'd only been thinking of Reagan. I'll mention the Pope, to complete the triumvirate.
As I said last thread,
An era terminates; an age ends.
May her legacy inspire the future.
.. RIP Thatcher
Speaking of the fall of the USSR...!
An era terminates; an age ends.
May her legacy inspire the future.
"...telling me that the world has not changed. I said 'Ma, c'mon! This is 1974. Anti-semitism is a thing of the past.'"
Just as the threat of Communism ended with the fall of the USSR.
The more human nature changes, the more it stays the same.
From smoke of grass to slime of slugs,
I've tasted and tried all kinds of drugs.
Most do one harm and some may enlighten,
Some bring sweet peace while others enfrighten.
A body's a temple one ought not pollute,
At least not the way I did in my yout',
But nannies beware, I refuse to give up
My coffee 'til cold hands are pried from my cup.
19 Posted by: a mindful webworker is all sleepy but awake at April 08, 2013 07:13 AM (F3WsD)
The contrast is staggering. Even Levin goes off on it. I can't listen to him live so I listen to the downloads the next day, so mercifully I avoid the ABC-Pravda cast.
"In local news, my radio station has switched from ABC News to Fox News."
Our station switched last year from Fox to All Barack Co. Fox was awful. ABC was not an improvement. So weird to be listening to, say, Mark Levin, then have it interrupted for a 3-min propaganda spew for the SCOAMF. One thing, it's easier to race for the off button when the news comes on.
Vic send his regards on his way to harass medical people. Meanwhile, let me be the first to say, Obama is a stuttering clusterfluke of a miserable fake, and all he stands for I stand against. FTR
1000th!
Oh, early?
Woke up 2 hours before my alarm. What's this about? I went outside for a walk... Where's the sun? I look on AoS.. Where's the morning news posts? This is so weird... I don't even know if I should start the coffee!
I am not in th top 10s. Yay
That is all. Pax, y'all, when possible. Otherwise, use the rocket launcher button!
