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What "Free Press"? are you referring to? The "Free Press" that did everything in their power to get Trump elected, because as we found out later the Democrats believed he would be the easiest for Hillary to beat? The one that colluded with the DNC to install a particular person to the highest office in the land after the two Primaries? The one that continues to collude to disrupt the current President? The painfully obvious slander and hit jobs by CNN and MSNBC colluding with (and repeating the stories of) NYT, WP, etc..? That "Free Press"?

The "Free" press has been dead for quite a while. We were put on notice by journalists when the monopolization was legalized (previously restricted by law).

I believe it would be more apt to say that Trump wanted to attack an openly corrupt media establishment. A whole lot of people agree with him, and of course the owners of that powerful block of corruption are doing all they can to maintain power and control.

Do you even know what a "free press" is? Judging from your diatribe, you simply haven't got a clue.

They wouldn't have tagged the end of a law clearly intended for seasonal factory work with covering all aspects of distribution. Distribution is the marketing, transporting, merchandising, and selling of any item. The law specifies marketing, but nothing else in the definition of distribution is used. So by using only a portion of the definition in the law, it's clear they didn't intend to extend overtime exemption to all aspects of distribution. So when the word distribution is used, it is only as a way to clarify a type of packing work that doesn't get overtime. If that wasn't the intent, then it was redundant that they specified marketing and they didn't think truckers or grocery store employees should get overtime.
 

Just in case you did not recognize the humour.

Yeah the corporate and political propagandist trolls are working full time on this story. Want to behave like a dick bag, expect to be called one. Behave like an uncle tom, well, don't be surprised when you are called one. Slime you way into a group, just to use and exploit the group don't be surprised when you are called out and told to bugger off.

When Uncle Tom Obama started random blowing people up with drones, then insults are to be expected and they are whole lot less harmfull than those missiles. Same as cheating justice when the war for profit was exposed as well as mass torture to fabricate evidence.

Political correctness being nothing more than rampant censorship, backed by the effluvium http://www.dictionary.com/brow... that is main stream media. So "every progressive is a totalitarian", where do you think that came from, the fake left or the right. Every corporate schill hiding behind fake politics is a fucking cunt. Political correctness, use of censorship to silence opposition has already reached peak as is collapsing in on itself.

How about this, fairies and pixies may, I repeat 'may' and I do not mean the month of May but http://www.dictionary.com/brow..., just so there is not doubt, well there is actually a whole lot of doubt but now to get back to the point, fairies and pixies may be responsible for all global warming.

So the new corporate double speak science, things might happen, forget the old fashioned, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... In newspeak science, things might happen and things may happen and likely and probably and scientific testing has to only sort of be replicable, sometimes, maybe.

If the scientist can not commit to the report, why the fuck should we.

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Really honestly why is fuck worse than sexual intecourse, why is cunt worse than vagina and why is cock worse than penis, honestly in reality, why, just why. Is it because some arse holes are control freaks and want to control all those around them and making arbitrary distinctions like that enable them to do so. Hell slashdot would not even let me write http://www.dictionary.com/brow..., fuck off yah septic tank wowsers (yeah you will have to find the link yourself because arse holes).

Language, folks. Accidents are things you want to avoid, not things you just don't realize.

It really isn't that hard to consult a dictionary rather than impulsively posting something that turns out to be mostly incorrect. There are seven meanings for the word "accident" here, and five of them have no negative connotation at all. Several indicate it's a synonym for the things you say it doesn't mean.

It is in the dictionary
http://www.dictionary.com/brow...
It is to performer as informant is to informer.

The use of the word here is as an adjective.
Your definition is of a noun.

It is in the dictionary
http://www.dictionary.com/brow...
It is to performer as informant is to informer.

and WTF is a koan?

From http://www.dictionary.com/brow...: a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating.

The British definition is a little clearer: (in Zen Buddhism) a problem or riddle that admits no logical solution

No death spiral, a google scam. Basically google used insider information to steal as much market share as possible from mozzila, no ifs buts or maybes. Mozzila targeted the wrong market. People do not really browse the internet with mobile phones, they only get want they want at the time. It generates a lot of hits because of numbers of people but per person, outside of filling an immediate need, the browsing does not really happen, simply a very bad reading format, too small. Browsing - "to access and view (website content) with a Web browser, usually without looking for something specific" http://www.dictionary.com/brow..., only really occurs on a bigger screen formats.

So Mozilla needs to focus on browsing information (not targeted information retrieval, in and out and done), that leisurely trawl through the internet on the big screen, whether that be a desktop, an all in one big screen computer (55" and up) or next gen virtual reality glasses.

The mobile phone and tablet, are internet search devices not internet browsing devices. Also they need to ignore google's bullshit, goggle is not their friend, goggle is a disingenuous predator and should not be trusted (proof of this, the purposeful attempt to surreptitiously corrupt elections in their corporate favour, really, really, dangerous anti-democratic stuff because it was done in secret and specifically targeted the subconscious of people, sick stuff indeed, as evil as it gets).

You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
Really - look it up

The dictionary.com definition http://www.dictionary.com/browse/portentous lists:

adjective
1. of the nature of a portent; momentous.
2. ominously significant or indicative: a portentous defeat.
3. marvelous; amazing; prodigious.

While #2 seems fitting, I do see what you are saying.

However "portentous future" I've heard as a phrase before, usually talking about something negative.

The only source I found was a couple results lower in google at wordreference.com http://www.wordreference.com/definition/portentous

Here the #2 adjective is:
indicating something bad for the future: a portentous defeat.

I don't know how much wordreference.com is considered authoritative, if at all, but I'm pretty sure that's the definition Musk was going with.
It is certainly the meaning I read before you mentioned the word.

Obama arranged to continue Afghanistan occupation until after his predecessor's predecessor.

Predecessor

I see that your grasp of the English language is similar to your grasp on reality. Tenuous at best.

From the linked wiki page, first sentence even: "Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex..." emphasis mine. In case reading comprehension is hard: May:used to express possibility.

Gender MAY include the physical sex of an organism, it may not. GP's statement is accurate.

Here is you "citation"

http://www.dictionary.com/brow...

Blame everyone but the lousy candidate with more baggage than Trump.

took myself to a phycologist. That was probably a mistake

It definitely was, unless you're an aquatic plant.

Why, any Congressional investigation that is active before the real investigators have determined what the facts of the matter are.

Annnnnd determining the facts invariably involves putting people under oath and asking them questions. The original pedant fail.

"Congressional investigations" are not investigations

Nonsense. Congress has stronger investigative powers than any police department or the DOJ, as they can directly issue subpoenas to compel documents or testimony, as opposed to having to go through a court order. They can even use inherent contempt to have the sergeant at arms drag your to the hearing, without having to ask the capital police or the DOJ to do it for them. Lying to Congress is a federal offense, though it's up to the DOJ to bring charges. No, they can't sentence you to jail, but neither can the police while performing an investigation.

The rest of parent comment are merely insults that have no value in a reasoned discussion.

So, not only are you a pedant who is wrong on the facts, you whine about non-existent insults. Because it's not an insult when it's true:

Pedant, noun
1. a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
2. a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.
3. a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.
4. Obsolete. a schoolmaster.

Posting a response that is a pointless nitpicking of spelling without addressing the argument being made, is pedantry, straight up.

Then you are entirely naeve.

They are entirely a spot or blemish? Da fuq?!?

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Exactly. Having done this for a few years, CLEAR LANGUAGE is very important. There are english courses dedicated to that concept, but its pretty simple to grasp.

"Yes, that's probably a virus. Delete it."

While not exactly technically accurate, leaves absolutely no ambiguity. You would never tell the user to change their password, because obviously, they are being told that already by a third party so you telling them that would be an explicit validation of the problem and cause them to immediately act on it.

That he says a typo is to blame is icing on the cake really. Like someone who went over reading bad correspondences they made and desperately searching for any reason that it is not their fault.

Language of course, can only help if your direction is sound. And with that many screw ups in a tiny email, it was clearly not. This guy does seem like a bad admin at this point and perhaps, clueless. lor knows there are plenty of them

So please, enlighten my ignorance

There is not time for that, but start here.

There is no "everyone gets a trophy" in the Presidential election process.

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See meaning 5.

You're using a very narrow definition of "build".

Build (verb): 7) "to form or construct a plan, system of thought, etc"

http://www.dictionary.com/brow...

Completely valid use of the word.

cis

It is a well known fact that reality has a strong liberal bias.

Correct... although I think it was more correct 10 years ago than it is today. This is particularly evident with issues requiring nuance. With broad brush strokes and in the big picture, liberals still completely blow conservatives away (at least in this country), but I've noticed that they are becoming less and less able or willing to delve into more detailed rational analysis. The obvious examples generally involve calling out the overeager progressives (/ SJWs) on their statistical fabrications, but it's not limited to that.

For example, in the past three days I've had two people around here foe me for daring to point out things like the fact that Trump did not "admit" to sexually assaulting anyone, but rather was babbling about being a magnet for beautiful women and said that they "let you" do things with them. They don't continue the debate past a post or two; they just shut up and foe me. That let is a very common word with a perfectly agreed-on definition does not appear to matter to these people:

"They didn't really let him; they were coerced! He was in a position of power!"

"Well, that may well be, but there's no indication of that on the tape. I'm definitely not claiming he's innocent; I'm just saying that he didn't admit to what you (and the New York Times, for crying out loud) are claiming he admitted to. He was clearly engaged in some over the top macho bragging that women were *that into him* that he didn't have to 'wait' for a bunch of tedious flirting or courting. He wasn't bragging about not waiting for any form of express or implied consent; that's ridiculous. The whole context of this cringingly bad boasting is that they know who he is and exhibit attraction to his wealth."

"But he apologized! Why would he apologize if he wasn't talking about grabbing pussy without permission?!"

"Uh, well, he was running as a *Republican* and he was caught red-handed talking extremely crudely about extramarital sex. Maybe that might have something to do with it?"

It seems that minor quibbles like these are conversation-enders with a lot of people these days, even if you include (as I try to remember to do so) a bunch disclaimers about how you're a liberal/leftist, can't stand Trump, didn't vote for him, and acknowledge that he may well have assaulted one or more of the women who accused him. It's fairly astonishing. And worrying. The echo chambers are being reinforced and the heretics cast out... hmm. I confess I was rather looking forward to seeing this kind of self-destruction on the right in this country. This is less fun to behold.

I guess the bottom line is I'm not sure reality will always have a liberal bias. Don't count on it. Don't take it for granted. I say that partially because we need to constantly strive to stay in touch with the world as it really is, but also I simply don't think the left needs more smugness right now.

Trump strongly implied there was consent,

No.

Yes. You want us to interpret the word "let" as "outwardly let, but they didn't really *willingly let* him because they were under coercion", which in the context of Trump's tape is a whole-cloth fabrication. There was no such implication in the tape.

it = the kissing. It's quite clear. And he said quite clearly he did not wait.

Correct. And then people like you added "for consent [be it implicit/explicit/any]" to that sentence, when there is every implication to the contrary.

This isn't my only point here, far from it, but I am curious: do you honestly believe Trump meant to say "I've always been automatically attracted to beautiful women" (a rather hollow sentence, even by his standards)... or, given the over the top bragging context of the conversation, was he trying to say "beautiful women have always been automatically attracted to me"? And if you admit that he meant to say the latter, I'm very curious about where you think you can sense this implication from Trump that the women weren't into it.

The only reason to not give a toss if if you want to use those positions of power yourself. I mean if you never mention that you're abusing such a position it's a-OK according to you. Pro tip: it isn't.

Non-sequitur nonsense. I care about leftists lying about the contents of this specific tape as a compelling example of the sort of misfires that led to Trump's election. If there's evidence elsewhere that he abused his power then he abused his power. That doesn't excuse bullshit like this, where you blatantly lie about the contents of a tape. The alt-right feeds and grows on this very thing, this whinging leftist PC masochism that cheapens and weakens terms like "rape", "misogyny" and "racism" whilst actual victims (very possibly even including victims of Trump) slip under the radar.

IOW you can't be bothered to know what's going on so you simply invent shit

I've invented nothing. I've merely responded to the soundbite that people like you are responsible for inventing and pushing, after the man gave you a mountain of legitimate and very powerful ammunition to use against him.

Nope. Compare Developed Economy.

They can chop you up easily without even phasing them.

That's "fazing". Seriously. Please don't use words you've only seen other children use on the internet. You don't know what they mean.

They aren't toys and can be quite dangerous.

You don't have feathers, which are quite protective. The birds are going for the centers of the drones, because that's what they do to other birds. There is a risk, but it is not as large as you suggest.

A good-sized heli is far more dangerous than a quad of the same mass because of the inertia of the single rotor.

ACT and FEIGN are the same thing. Good job there guy. WTF is FAIN?

Although you are right in your correction, "fain" is actually a word.

Try this http://www.dictionary.com/brow...
Click the little speaker icon next to the word "maths"
It will, as if my magic, pronounce the word for you.

Fascinating. So it looks like that quote is certainly open to "some" interpretation.

For instance, it depends on how you quantify the qualifier of "some". Being inherently a vague expression, you ascribe to it a meaning of "a small amount", when in reality, the definition is "an undetermined or unspecified amount".

Setting aside the question of amounts, the quote also reads such that "Mexico" is sending people. Many would agree that this is referring to the Mexican government, and Trump was (to my knowledge) making the implication that said government is pushing all of its "undesirables" onto us through illegal immigration. This makes a big difference when one is questioning the "xenophobic" or "racist" nature of a quote. Xenophobia would be the fear of immigration and alien presence, while the quote seems to make me think that Trump is instead unhappy with a sovereign state's efforts to clean up its own population by forcing the bad elements out into another sovereign state. Also, Racism is the belief that another race is inherently superior or inferior to others. I don't actually see any part of this quote that refers to race, but I suppose that is being pedantic, no? Lets assume that "Mexican" is a race instead of a nationality. Do you see him saying anything negative about Mexicans as a social group? Is he not referring to illegal immigrants exclusively?

I don't imagine you'll really take any of this to heart, but I do hope that you begin to question what you're being told by not only the media, but your own leaders. I, myself, didn't vote for Trump (feel the Johnson, baby), but it does certainly rub me the wrong way when I see people telling bold-faced lies about what a public figure "does" and "says". Even if Trump was spouting lies, do you really need to stoop to the level of a liar to discredit him?

Increasingly I am seeing this apparently made-up (via back-formation) word "coronated".

Dictionary.com thinks "coronated" is a real word, but what do they know.

There is no such thing as entrapment by non-law-enforcement individuals or organizations. Only cops. Definition of entrapment

1. the luring by a law-enforcement agent of a person into committing a crime.
2. an act or process of entrapping.
3. a state of being entrapped.

It's perfectly legal for me to do something that, if the police were to do it, would be entrapment. So no, your claim that it also applies to private entities is a fantasy, same as the democrats thinking that Clinton could win.

Nominally as in so-called. He is necessarily nominally a republican since he ran as one and won the Republican primary.

You are arguing that he is effectively>/i> a Democrat.

http://www.dictionary.com/brow...
to make contact with (someone) by sending a brief electronic message, as a text message:
The design team should ping marketing to set up a meeting next week.
Ping me when you arrive, and I’ll meet you at the door.

It may not be a popular use, but I certainly didn't make it up. That you are too dumb to know words doesn't mean they aren't real.

Really, you're calling the HP one gimmicky and not the Apple one?

Yes, I am. The HP one only supports the media playback controls and volume function it's set up with. It cannot be reconfigured automatically to offer additional functionality.

The only difference between it and a plain extra row of media playback keys is "oooo, these don't have physical buttons, it's touch sensitive, see?".
That's the definition of gimmick. It has a single, novel feature to its controls that is only there to increase appeal. What practical advantage does a static touch control offer over a physically actuated button? None, less you use your keyboard with Cheetos-crumbed hands too much and are worried about dirt/jamming.

it is impossible for it to dip below the 400 ppm mark for decades even if every human on the planet killed themselves tomorrow

No amount of mitigation or climate change policy or taxes or international treaties is going to change that.

policies that are being negotiated and proposed are utterly useless

people who advocate governmental action on climate change are liars and crooks

You can be an optimist about it (like myself)

That is not what optimism is. Cynicism probably, defeatist definitely.

Death is also inevitable and no one can change that, yet we still try to live decently and prolong our lives anyway. Since you are still alive, you have implicitly subscribed to the idea that something appearing to be inevitable is no reason to give up trying.

it is impossible for it to dip below the 400 ppm mark for decades even if every human on the planet killed themselves tomorrow

No amount of mitigation or climate change policy or taxes or international treaties is going to change that.

policies that are being negotiated and proposed are utterly useless

people who advocate governmental action on climate change are liars and crooks

You can be an optimist about it (like myself)

That is not what optimism is. Cynicism probably, defeatist definitely.

Death is also inevitable and no one can change that, yet we still try to live decently and prolong our lives anyway. Since you are still alive, you have implicitly subscribed to the idea that something appearing to be inevitable is no reason to give up trying.

I think you mean pre-Columbus. Pre-Columbian would be prior to the founding of Columbia. That would also be the case, but it's not really what you're going for.

If you don't understand a word, I suggest you use a dictionary.

Regardless, some of those peoples are still around

Well, yes, some of those peoples are still around, which matters to racists and fascists, who believe that races and peoples have rights and share collective guilt. None of those people are still around, which is what matters from the point of justice and liberty.

in spite of our government's best efforts to commit genocide.

Well, you should know, since it's people with your political beliefs that call for, and commit, genocides.

Can never convince enough principles to join me.

Perhaps if didn't call them opportunists, they'd be more interested in joining you?

The lure of that pension plan (yes, still have one...) is too strong.

Which is why many people are starting to realize that 401k's are actually a better choice.

That single statement is called snark. Those of us who understand basic US English can recognize it when we see it. If you don't believe a Politician can use Snark you had best put every Politician ever recorded in Jail immediately.

I can see, why moving to India is less practical for a Californian, than to North Carolina. But I do not see it so much less practical as to make a qualitative difference — merely quantitative. India is a (reasonable approximation of) Democracy, English is the official language...

English is not the official language of India. The 2001 census came up with 122 major languages and 1599 other languages, though there seems to be some confusion in distinguishing languages and dialects.

Form of government may be vaguely similar, but politics are very different. Culture is very different. Your values are very different from your neighbors'. Family and old friends are very distant and very expensive to visit. All of these factors combine to reduce a person's self-confidence and sense of well-being.

Is your argument merely pedantic?

Is that a bad thing?

Oh, I think I see the problem. Yes, being pedantic is mostly a bad thing. It means "ostentatious in one's learning"; "overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching". It is engaged in by persons who adhere rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense. It's a negative term that implies someone is showing off book learning or trivia, especially in a tiresome way. What's worse, people who engage in this behavior quite frequently aren't able to see what the problem is. It's sort of like the Dunning-Kruger Effect, but for personality rather than intelligence.

I can see, why moving to India is less practical for a Californian, than to North Carolina. But I do not see it so much less practical as to make a qualitative difference — merely quantitative. India is a (reasonable approximation of) Democracy, English is the official language...

English is not the official language of India. The 2001 census came up with 122 major languages and 1599 other languages, though there seems to be some confusion in distinguishing languages and dialects.

Form of government may be vaguely similar, but politics are very different. Culture is very different. Your values are very different from your neighbors'. Family and old friends are very distant and very expensive to visit. All of these factors combine to reduce a person's self-confidence and sense of well-being.

Is your argument merely pedantic?

Is that a bad thing?

Oh, I think I see the problem. Yes, being pedantic is mostly a bad thing. It means "ostentatious in one's learning"; "overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching". It is engaged in by persons who adhere rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense. It's a negative term that implies someone is showing off book learning or trivia, especially in a tiresome way. What's worse, people who engage in this behavior quite frequently aren't able to see what the problem is. It's sort of like the Dunning-Kruger Effect, but for personality rather than intelligence.

Funny I get the exact opposite from that without even listening to the tape, why bother. Confession, yep uh huh, just your typical dumb male braggadocio http://www.dictionary.com/brow..., there is even a specific word for it. The louder the boast the less likely it is to be actually happening (simple transference from behaviour with high priced hookers to pretend behaviour in the real world). All pretty lame and typical and compared to what was publicly broadcast be Clinton, "We came, we saw, he died, HA HA HA", now that was something that actually happened and she was laughing over someone being sodomised with firearms, tortured and shot as well as tens of thousands of others dying and main stream media ignores that. So apparently in US main stream, being responsible for the brutal murder and death of thousands and laughing about it, is not as bad as bragging about grabbing high priced hookers whilst pretending the are women off the street is worse. Oh how low has main stream media sunk, global media, if fact all media with hooks from the US military industrial complex and full of three letter agency propagandists pretending to be journalists. See celebrated by main stream media https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., thousands die and it is big ole joke, yet this is good and Trump empty boasting is the height of all evil.

> Yes. Atheism is a belief about the nature of god

Incorrect. You are failing to understand the etymology of 'a'

variant of an-.before a consonant, meaning âoenot,â âoewithoutâ:
amoral; atonal; achromatic.

not; without; opposite to: atonal, asocial
Word Origin
from Greek a-, an- not, without

Theism: has belief in God
A-Theism: has no belief in God

Gnostic: has experiential knowledge
A-Gnostic: has no experiential knowledge

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The Atheist is the blind man saying "There is no such thing as color because I can't see it or prove it." From his limited perspective he is correct !
The Theist is the color-blind man saying "I have Faith there is more then monochromatic color because others says so."
The Agnostic is the blind man saying "The Theist or Gnostic could be right but I personally don't know. "
The Gnostic is the man who fully sees in color. Everyone else thinks he is crazy because others lack the frame of reference to even understand the answer let alone the question.

Unless you're talking about Morales. Maybe know what you're talking about before you blow hot air. http://www.dictionary.com/brow...

"prefix 1. removal of or from something specified: deforest, dethrone"

because that's what ticking time bombs do.. they crumble down to micro plastics. whatever they are.

You should check out the concept of figurative speech. I think it's going to blow your mind.

Micro plastics are small pieces of plastic. The prefix "micro" comes from greek and means "small".

Glad I could help.