President Obama fucking nailed it on same-sex marriage and the separation of church and state today

mepper · 8 days

Is it their job? No. Did they do it anyway? Yep.

mepper · 9 days

Are you waiting on perfect? Must be lonely over there.

mepper · 9 days

He does have power. If the houses of Congress passed a bill to make it federally impossible to gay-marry he could veto it. If, as would be likely, it passed by 51% in either house then that's it, it won't happen.

Source: paying attention in high school

mepper · 9 days

I would disagree. The safe position is to take the Christian vote and back hate. But he's making a larger stance and doing several things in one move (be they understood by him or not):

Setting the standard for Democratic candidates to come. No one can back down on this now.
Saying that it's okay to be for this particular position ("even the President supports it") as an official or even citizen.
Makes it known that the movement is making progress and will not fade into the night as conservative state after state votes conservative insanity into the law books.
Says where the government's position will start when the issue hits the federal level ("states can do what they please, but we're going to leave it open for anyone").

I wouldn't downplay the event at all. He had to have clout and a strong following to make this move.

mepper · 9 days

That's pretty much common knowledge. But he's a politician, and politicians take safe stances. The significant concept here is that this is now the safe stance, and that by his doing this it will become the Democratic standard position in short order and the party will not accept a candidate that does not hold this position after the base organizes behind it.

By him "coming out" as pro-marriage equality he just started the war the GOP's been scared of for years (the war for equal rights, not a "war on marriage", though they'll call it that).

mepper · 9 days

He was always for civil unions, but undecided on marriage until very recently. Dan Savage has a nice breakdown in this week's Savage Love podcast about it.

Does he have a perfect LGBT record? No. Is it better than anyone else running for that office? Abso-fucking-lutely. Take what you can get.

mepper · 9 days

That's actually the proper way to cross one's legs. It's only recently that the very casual and rather offensive heel-knee crossing has become popular.

One of many links: http://www.gq.com/style/style-guy/miscellany/200803/crossing-legs

mepper · 9 days

What interrupts your fapping session aids others'.

(Not mine, just saying'.)

mepper · 9 days

R: "We have the southern Christian male voters!"

O: "We have the atheists, the women, the educated, the poor, the students, and …"

R: "Ha! I laugh at your weak voters!"

O: " ... the Oprah and The View demographics."

R: "Oh shit."

mepper · 9 days

Because women are an issue this year (awesome job GOP!) and are going to vote. Going there, speaking some common sense, being respectful and wise ... sealing up the chubby white woman vote.

mepper · 9 days

I hope they film on the ground floor. Can you imagine what would happen if they jumped at the same time?

Everything-is-Magic · 25 days

I realize I'm late to the party, but I wanted to confirm that this works. I was in the states and the lady was in another country without service. She turned on airplane mode and then joined wifi and we iMessage-d for a week perfectly.

Have fun!

cake-please · 1 month

I doubled my income by playing politics. It washes off in the car on the way home.

Kanon-Kaj · 1 month

Yeah, I'd explain how to do it, but I've mastered it.

pattymcfatty · 1 month

Well, that was the 2006 AppleCare price. ;) Cool that it's cheaper than that, though.

pattymcfatty · 1 month

In warranty: free. Out of warranty: $350-$400 for the flat-rate repair.

Little-known fact: if the machine has not been "accidentally damaged" the above rates always apply. Even if you need a new screen.

cake-please · 1 month

Oh, so I'm not the only one that gets around password histories by incrementing a number? Oh say it ain't so.

Ours at work are three passwords deep so I just change my password three times when the time comes and move along.

Fuck 'em.

cake-please · 1 month

At a certain Big 12 university in north-central Texas I stayed in the dorms freshman year. We were told the dorm network was a switched network and no one could see our traffic. So, of course, I opened up a sniffer and watched for traffic and lo, I saw other people's traffic on my port.

I raised the issue in a trouble ticket and was told I was making stuff up and that things are switched. So I setup the sniffer to look for IMAP logins (SSL was not used much in these days) and I managed to snag the logins of three people on my floor. Shortly thereafter person A sent an email to person B with person B's password, then person B sent a similar email to person C, who sent a similar email to person A.

Then I kicked back and waited.

About ten minutes later three guys had found each other in the hallway and were yelling quite emphatically at each other on the topic of passwords before they realized what was going on. About a week later there was a "network upgrade" and I couldn't see anyone else's traffic anymore.

And that's how you make them care.

I should discuss how I got AppleTalk filtered sometime (hint: remote printing).

cake-please · 1 month

Unfortunately, I knew nothing about politics.

That's how I lose most of my coworkers. Shame.

Kanon-Kaj · 1 month

Education sales agent.

Kanon-Kaj · 1 month

This is the right answer. My eight-hour-days are the hardest four hours I work.

repo_my_life · 1 month

Go to a lawyer and file. Get a restraining order that kicks her out. Get the police to enforce it.

The key is that you can do it yourself. You don't need her permission to divorce her, it's just easier (and cheaper) if it's mutual.

jouni · 1 month

Turned it down to 15m and my battery lasts days now. It didn't used to make it past the workday. You got a winner, man. Thanks!

FrancisDollarHyde · 1 month

Catnip. It's the shit, man.

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