Raithe Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Heh. Distractify - Someone keeps trying to edit Wikipedia and remove Trump references Joe Lieberman has solidly emerged as one of the front runners for the newly-vacant position of FBI Director. Considering his law firm has a lengthy history of representing Donald Trump, many people think there's a conflict of interests there. That potential conflict of interests might be behind the Wiki-War that's been happening on the law firms page. Someone keeps trying to remove all references to Donald Trump. Reporter Lachlan Markay posted the edit history for their page on his social media, pointing out where Trump was removed from a list of notable clients. Curious, Markay went on to check the IP address that made the changes to see if they'd made any other edits. It turns out, they had. The user removed Trump's name from that client list several times because admins kept putting it back. The user also adjusted the Wikipedia entry for Trump advisor Stephen Miller and the entry for Trump's State of the Union address. Both edits were pro-Trump. Twitter user @KateInVenice pointed out that the Wikipedia page wasn't the only place Donald Trump's name disappeared from. Trump's name is now missing from the law firms website as well, specifically from Joe Lieberman and Marc Kasowitz's attorney profile pages. 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 This is a very interesting article. Too bad it's so long I'm too lazy to read it all: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/05/new-class-war/ George Orwell provided a succinct summary of Burnham’s thesis: Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers, lumped together by Burnham, under the name of “managers.” These people will eliminate the old capitalist class, crush the working class, and so organize society that all power and economic privilege remain in their own hands. . . . The new “managerial” societies will not consist of a patchwork of small, independent states, but of great super-states grouped round the main industrial centers in Europe, Asia and America. These super-states will fight among themselves for possession of the remaining uncaptured portions of the earth, but will probably be unable to conquer one another completely. Internally, each society will be hierarchical, with an aristocracy of talent at the top and a mass of semi-slaves at the bottom. And so, just about every cyberpunk novel comes one step closer to reality. Goddamn megacorps. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Snerk. 6 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valsuelm Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 (edited) Not yet in stone, but it's a good bet this is the result of 'politics': https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3624815/manchester-arena-evacuated-as-witnesses-report-loud-bang-minutes-after-ariana-grande-finishes-set/ I was actually considering seeing her this year too.... Edited May 22, 2017 by Valsuelm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Tragic. It sounds like the story is still developing, but there are casualties. I recommend not reading the comments section on that article. Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilloutman Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 didn't they catch some nutjub eralier this year who planned that exact thing? I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Tragic. It sounds like the story is still developing, but there are casualties. I recommend not reading the comments section on that article. Ugh. It's the Sun, I recommend not reading it at all Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valsuelm Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Tragic. It sounds like the story is still developing, but there are casualties. I recommend not reading the comments section on that article. Ugh. It's the Sun, I recommend not reading it at all ****ty as the Sun, Wapo, NYTimes,etc may be, they are sometimes the first with info X. Particularly when it's a tragic event. As for comments... run of the mill for anything like this from what I saw... but I certainly may have seen different comments than Hurl as there are a few hundred of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 It's mostly just the standard Muslims! scream and blaming the media and government for not jumping immediately to that conclusion. Which of course the obvious odds are this is the act of Muslim extremism. But that is basically the point of a terrorist attack, right? Ratchet up tension, try and justify a misguided holy war? I don't think it was about Arianna Grande's music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 The monthly terror attack sponsored by Trump's new Saudi friends. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Namutree Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 The monthly terror attack sponsored by Trump's new Saudi friends. They do the best attacks, really great attacks, just fantastic. 2 "Good thing I don't heal my characters or they'd be really hurt." Is not something I should ever be thinking. I use blue text when I'm being sarcastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 It's the Sun, I recommend not reading it at all Not sure how many people have seen this old British comedy series called "Yes Prime Minister!". Jim Hacker (the PM) explains who reads the newspapers Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is. Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun? Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big ****. 6 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben No.3 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 This is a very interesting article. Too bad it's so long I'm too lazy to read it all: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/05/new-class-war/ George Orwell provided a succinct summary of Burnham’s thesis: Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers, lumped together by Burnham, under the name of “managers.” These people will eliminate the old capitalist class, crush the working class, and so organize society that all power and economic privilege remain in their own hands. . . . The new “managerial” societies will not consist of a patchwork of small, independent states, but of great super-states grouped round the main industrial centers in Europe, Asia and America. These super-states will fight among themselves for possession of the remaining uncaptured portions of the earth, but will probably be unable to conquer one another completely. Internally, each society will be hierarchical, with an aristocracy of talent at the top and a mass of semi-slaves at the bottom. Much of this is Marxist theory: class struggle and the capitalists tendency to form oligopolies/monopolies. You can't just cast away the correct sides of Marxism by discrediting it through pointing out its flaws in other points (such as for example dialectical materialism (as the article pointed out) or the labour theory of value), doing that is a logical fallacy in itself. 1 Everybody knows the deal is rotten Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton For your ribbons and bows And everybody knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 The Saudi's are makin' it rain up in here. This (total) package, coupled with the 20B from earlier, is like three years of free UHC! w00t! "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 On the news today, the announced the "President's FY 2017 budget". Apparently FY stands for "Fiscal Year", although the content looks closer to some other FY phrase... hmm. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 It's the Sun, I recommend not reading it at all Not sure how many people have seen this old British comedy series called "Yes Prime Minister!". Jim Hacker (the PM) explains who reads the newspapers Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is. Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun? Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big ****. One of my favourite segments of the program. Bernard's the best. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilloutman Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 **** are censored here? I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckdevil Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 "I don't do evidence, I do intelligence". SMH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 This just in: They are ALL liars! http://reason.com/archives/2017/05/22/whos-telling-the-truth-in-washington-any Please ... please contain your shock levels. I know this will come as a surprise to everyone... and by everyone I mean no one. You want my advice? Turn off the news, get off the internet, go fishing. You will be much happier! "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrath of Dagon Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 The truth is the most precious commodity. It must be protected with a bodyguard of lies. https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/recovery-opinionanalysis-on-comey-and-draining-the-swamp-a-note-on-education/ All very logical, and comports with known facts. "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elerond Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Quite lot Trump supporters seem to be quite generous and are willing to take even 700% increase in their premiums in order to give mainly Clinton voters cuts in their premiums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Politics is about winning not about being right Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Quite lot Trump supporters seem to be quite generous and are willing to take even 700% increase in their premiums in order to give mainly Clinton voters cuts in their premiums. Maybe they look further than the end of their noses? What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben No.3 Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Quite lot Trump supporters seem to be quite generous and are willing to take even 700% increase in their premiums in order to give mainly Clinton voters cuts in their premiums.Maybe they look further than the end of their noses?What?You don't know idioms either? Who the hell hires you as a teacher? Flat earth society? there's a very similar saying on german, but are you sure it exists on English? Everybody knows the deal is rotten Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton For your ribbons and bows And everybody knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Twitter had some questions for Betsy DeVos "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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